Myiagra vanikorensis occidentalis 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 : 209

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777925
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9ECF-10D7-FD14-4DBB0FA7F902
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scientific name	Myiagra vanikorensis occidentalis Mayr
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Myiagra vanikorensis occidentalis Mayr, 1931a: 24 (Rennell Island).

Now Myiagra caledonica occidentalis Mayr, 1931 View in CoL . See Watson et al., 1986c: 521, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 319.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 225650 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 4 September 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35466).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr had a single specimen. The France, vessel of the Whitney Expedition, was anchored in Kanggava Bay, 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974a) (5 Lughu Bay, Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. T, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Monarchidae
Genus	Myiagra