Vitia ruficapilla funebris 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 : 8

Vitia ruficapilla funebris Mayr

Vitia ruficapilla funebris Mayr, 1935: 5 (Tavium (sic), Fiji Islands).

Now Cettia ruficapilla funebris (Mayr, 1935) . See Orenstein and Pratt, 1983, and Watling, 2001: 148.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 251970 , adult male, collected on Taveuni Island , Fiji, on 15 December 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 16222).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, without indicating the number of specimens. Only the male was described, but females collected at the same time were also in Mayr’s hands. Paratypes are: AMNH 224390, 251965–251969, 251971, 251972, and 252016–252019. AMNH 252017 and 252018 were exchanged to DMNH in 1972.

On 15 December 1924, the France was anchored off Somosomo, 16.46S, 179.58W (USBGN, 1974c), according to the unpublished journal of Jose Correia (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).