Cichlornis whitneyi Mayr

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 : 22

Cichlornis whitneyi Mayr

Cichlornis whitneyi Mayr, 1933a: 4 (Santo Island, New Hebrides).

Now Megalurulus whitneyi whitneyi (Mayr, 1933) . See Ripley, 1985, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 582.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 224398 , adult male, collected on Espiritu Santo (5 Santo) Island, Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 8 December 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24155).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description, which was based on this single specimen. The genus Cichlornis was described at the same time ( Mayr, 1933a: 2–4).

In Beck’s unpublished Journal ‘‘D’’ (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), under the date of 9 December 1926, he noted ‘‘I visited the west side of Santo, but was unfortunate in being only able to get [to] 2500 feet, as the ridge ran no higher at our anchorage. I got a single small bird that was different, one specimen.’’

Bregulla (1992: 241–242) and Mayr and Diamond (2001: 391) retained whitneyi in the genus Cichlornis .