Lichmera incana mareensis Salomonsen, 1966

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 54

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475767
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scientific name	Lichmera incana mareensis Salomonsen
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Lichmera incana mareensis Salomonsen View in CoL

Lichmera incana mareensis Salomonsen, 1966a: 2 View in CoL (Maré Island, Loyalty Islands).

Now Lichmera incana mareensis Salomonsen, 1966 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 439, and Higgins et al., 2008: 662.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 337641 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Maré Island , 21.30S, 168.00E ( USBGN, 1974a), Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, on 8 November 1937, by Lindsay Macmillan (no. 50) on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Other specimens collected by Macmillan on Maré are paratypes: males, AMNH 337637–337640 About AMNH , 337642 About AMNH ; females, AMNH 337643 About AMNH , 337644 About AMNH .

Macmillan (vol. DD, p. 96, Maré Island fieldnotes and log, unpublished journal of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH) noted that he was on the plateau and coastal plain east of Tedine on 8 August 1937. Tedine, now Tadine or Tadinou, is at 21.33S, 167.52E (USBGN, 1956).

References

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Salomonsen, F. 1966 a. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora 254: 1 - 12.