Conopoderas vaughani rimitarae 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 : 33-34

Conopoderas vaughani rimitarae Murphy and Mathews

Conopoderas vaughani rimitarae Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 20 (Rimitara Island, Austral Group).

Now Acrocephalus rimitarae ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929) . See Graves, 1992: 37–40, del Hoyo et al., 2006: 629–630, and Cibois et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 190503 , adult male, collected on Rimatara (5 Rimitara) Island, 22.40S, 152.45W (Times Atlas), Tubuai (5 Austral) Islands, French Polynesia, on 29 March 1921, by Ernest H. Quayle on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 841).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series was said to include ‘‘Specimens from Rimitara, collected during March and April, 1921’’. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 190494–190538 (including 190533bis), 199955, and 836179– 836188. Of these, AMNH 190509, 190529, 190530, and 190536 had been exchanged to the Rothschild Collection, and when AMNH purchased that collection, they were renumbered AMNH 594984, 594987, 594985, and 594586 respectively. AMNH 190498 was exchanged to CM on 15 June 1929, AMNH 190510 and 190514 to ZMB in July 1936, and 190519 to NRM on 14 June 1929. I did not find AMNH 190516 and 190533 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to another institution without the catalog having been so marked.