Conopoderas atypha palmarum Murphy and Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 32-33

Conopoderas atypha palmarum Murphy and Mathews

Conopoderas atypha palmarum Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 12 (Anaa Island, Tuamotus).

Now Acrocephalus atyphus palmarum ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929) . See Watson et al., 1986a:

72, del Hoyo et al., 2006: 629, and Cibois et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 190439 , adult male, collected on Anaa Island , 17.25S, 145.30W (Times Atlas), Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, on 21 October 1921, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 1720).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series was said to include ‘‘Specimens from Anaa, collected during October, 1921’’. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 190437, 190438, 190440– 190447. Of these, AMNH 190447 had been exchanged to the Rothschild Collection, and when this collection was purchased by AMNH, it was renumbered AMNH 594970. AMNH 190446 was exchanged to NRM on 14 June 1929. I did not find AMNH 190438 and 190444 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.

Dickinson (2003: 585) listed palmarum as a subspecies of A. caffer and referenced other treatments.