Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932

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scientific name	Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr
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Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr View in CoL

Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932: 28 View in CoL (Ganonga Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, Dickinson, 2003: 442, and Higgins et al., 2008: 651–652.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220206 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Ghanongga (5 Ganonga) Island, Solomon Islands, on 20 October 1927, by Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28778).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had six male and two female specimens from Ghanongga, including the type. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 220207– 220211; females, AMNH 220212, 220213. Mayr (1932: 28) mentioned that Hartert (1929: 10) had examined only two of these specimens and, based on his limited material, identified them as M. e. atrata; those two specimens are marked atrata by Hartert and are AMNH 220206 (the holotype of ganongae) and AMNH 220212.

On 20 October, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at the village of Kumbokota, now called Pienuna, 08.02S, 156.36E (USBGN, 1974b), and expedition personnel collected between there and Mount Kela, 08.03S, 156.34E (USBGN, 1974b), according to Hamlin’s Journal S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.

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.

Hartert, E. 1929. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VIII. Notes on birds from the Solomon Islands. American Museum Novitates 364: 1 - 19.

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.

Mayr, E. 1932. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XVIII. Notes on Meliphagidae from Polynesia and the Solomon Islands. American Museum Novitates 516: 1 - 30.

Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.