Petroica multicolor septentrionalis Mayr, 1934

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 : 245

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12778181
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scientific name	Petroica multicolor septentrionalis Mayr
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Petroica multicolor septentrionalis Mayr View in CoL

Petroica multicolor septentrionalis Mayr, 1934b: 14 View in CoL (Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands).

Now Petroica multicolor septentrionalis Mayr, 1934 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 225221 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Bougainville Island , North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, on 19 January 1928, by Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 315).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed measurements for 11 adult males and five adult females. Paratypes are: adult males, AMNH 225204–225208 About AMNH , 225211– 225213 About AMNH , 225215 About AMNH , 225217 About AMNH , and 225220 ; adult females, AMNH 225214 About AMNH , 225222–225224 About AMNH , and 225227 ; immature males, AMNH 225216 About AMNH , 225218 About AMNH , and 225219 ; immature females, AMNH 225210 About AMNH , 225225 About AMNH , and 225226 ; and AMNH 225209 About AMNH , specimen probably missexed. Of these, AMNH 225211 About AMNH was exchanged with ZMB in July 1936 .

On 19 January 1928, Whitney Expedition personnel were camped near the village of Kupei, ca. 06.15S, 155.27E, inland from Arawa Bay. The altitude at the camp was about 2300 ft, but a trail led from the camp to the top of a ridge at 5200 ft (unpublished journals of Hannibal Hamlin and Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).