Petroica multicolor cognata Mayr, 1938

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

Petroica multicolor cognata Mayr

Petroica multicolor cognata Mayr, 1938: 3 (Erromanga Is., southern New Hebrides).

Now Petroica multicolor cognata Mayr, 1938 . See Bregulla, 1992: 225–227.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 447436 , adult male, collected on Erromango (5 Erromanga) Island, ca. 18.40S, 169.00E, Vanuatu, on 5 March 1937, by Lindsay Macmillan (no. 446) on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description but only gave measurements of eight adult males and five adult females. The type series consisted of 23 specimens in addition to the holotype: paratypes AMNH 336606–336627 and 336852 (11 adult males, 7 adult females, 1 subadult male, 1 juvenile male, 2 juvenile females, and 1 juvenile sex?).