Phylloscopus trivirgatus makirensis 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 : 66-67

Phylloscopus trivirgatus makirensis Mayr

Phylloscopus trivirgatus makirensis Mayr, 1935: 5 ( San Cristobal).

Now Phylloscopus makirensis Mayr, 1935 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 391, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 672.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 228069 , adult male, collected on Makira (5 San Cristobal)

Island, 1900 ft, 10.36S, 161.45E ( USBGN, 1974a), Solomon Islands, on 12 December 1929, by Ernst Mayr, William F. Coultas, and Walter J. Eyerdam on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 38674).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr (1936: 18) gave measurements for six males and five females, presumably including the holotype. Seven males, one of which is marked ‘‘imm.’’ by Mayr, five females, and three unsexed birds were collected, all of which, except the holotype, are paratypes: AMNH 228067, 228068, and 228070–228081. AMNH 228068 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936, but would have been available to Mayr for the description.

On 12 December 1929, Mayr, Coultas, and Eyerdam were camped in the village of Hunogaraha or Huno Galdaha (Coultas’ unpublished journal, Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH), 15 mi inland from Kira Kira, 10.30S, 161.55E (Times Atlas).