Petroica multicolor polymorpha 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 : 244-245

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
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scientific name	Petroica multicolor polymorpha Mayr
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Petroica multicolor polymorpha Mayr View in CoL

Petroica multicolor polymorpha Mayr, 1934b: 11 View in CoL ( San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227992 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Makira (5 San Cristobal) Island, 1900 ft, 10.36S, 161.45E ( USBGN, 1974a), Solomon Islands, on 13 December 1929, by William F. Coultas, Walter J. Eyerdam, and Ernst Mayr on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 38720). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of seven adult males and six adult females. In his description of the complex plumages of this form, Mayr listed some of the AMNH numbers of his type series ; however, overall, there is a total of 29 specimens in the type series, including the holotype. The 28 paratypes are AMNH 227989–227991 About AMNH and 227993–228017. Of these, AMNH 228005 About AMNH was sent on exchange to ZMB in July 1936, and I did not find AMNH 227997 in the collection .

From 1 to 21 December, the expedition party had its base camp at the village of Huno Galada, 15 mi inland from Kira Kira, 10.30S, 161.55E (Times Atlas), according to the unpublished journal of William Coultas (Vol. V, pp. 233–234, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).