Monarcha castaneiventris obscurior Mayr, 1935

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 : 202

Monarcha castaneiventris obscurior Mayr

Monarcha castaneiventris obscurior Mayr, 1935: 5 (Pavuvu Islands, Solomon Islands).

Now Monarcha castaneiventris obscurior Mayr, 1935 . See Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 305.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 219711 , adult male, collected on Pavuvu Island , 09.10S, 159.07E ( Times Atlas ), Russell Group (5 Pavuvu Islands), Solomon Islands, on 4 (not 24) August 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 27241).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description ; however, the date was incorrectly cited. Later , Mayr (1936: 18) gave a more detailed description of this form, noting that he had specimens from Pavuvu , Banika , Mote , and Kiomie islands. The paratypes are: AMNH 217913–217921 , 219702–219710 , 225861 , 225863 , 226075–226079 , 226082–226086 , and 226161, all collected between 30 July and 5 August 1927. AMNH 225863 is the melanistic specimen mentioned by Mayr (1936: 19) .