Myiagra ferrocyanea malaitae Mayr, 1931

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

Myiagra ferrocyanea malaitae Mayr

Myiagra ferrocyanea malaitae Mayr, 1931c: 24 (Malaita Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Myiagra ferrocyanea malaitae Mayr, 1931 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 317.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227020 , adult male, collected on Malaita Island , Solomon Islands (5 British Solomon Islands), on 3 February 1930, by William F. Coultas, Hannibal Hamlin, Walter Eyerdam, and Ernst Mayr, on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39026).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mayr’s type series comprised specimens collected on Malaita Island by the Whitney Expedition in January, February, and March 1930. Paratypes are: AMNH 227009–227019 and 227021–227059. Of these, AMNH 227023 and 227057 were exchanged to ZMB in 1936.

The Whitney Expedition was at Suú, ca. 09.11S, 160.50E, on the date of collection of the holotype (W. Coultas, Vol. V, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).