Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis 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 ugiensis Mayr

Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis Mayr, 1931b: 19 (Ugi Island, British Solomon Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217586 , adult male, collected on Uki ni Masi (5 Ugi) Island, 10.10S, 161.40E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 13 April 1927, by Rollo H. Beck, Frederick P. Drowne, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 25803).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements based on 12 specimens. The 11 paratypes are: AMNH 217584, 217585, 217587–217594, and 225348.

The Whitney Expedition ship France anchored in Selwyn Bay, on the west coast of Uki ni Masi (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).