Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi 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 : 235

Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr

Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr, 1931b: 18 (Santa Anna Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr, 1931 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217567 , adult male, collected on Santa Ana (5 Santa Anna or Santa Ona) Island, 10.53S, 162.28E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 9 March 1927, by Rollo H. Beck, Frederick P. Drowne, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24903).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements based on 13 specimens, noting that most were in molt. The 12 paratypes are: AMNH 217568–217577, 225343, and 227760.

The Whitney Expedition ship France anchored at Port Mary, on the west side of Santa Ana (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives). On some modern maps, Santa Ana is called Owa Rafa.