Artamus leucorhynchus tenuis Mayr

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630196
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1900-FFEC-6ACB-968D1CB0FAB2
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scientific name	Artamus leucorhynchus tenuis Mayr
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Artamus leucorhynchus tenuis Mayr, 1943: 268 (Gaua, Banks Is.) .

Now Artamus leucorynchus tenuis Mayr, 1945 . See Mayr, 1962b: 163; Bregulla, 1992: 272–274; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 305.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 214076 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Lakon (= Gaua) Island, 14.17S, 167.30E ( USBGN, 1974b), Banks Islands , Vanuatu (= New Hebrides), on 10 September 1926, by Jose Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22622). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH catalog number of the holotype and noted that he examined 45 specimens from 10 islands in Vanuatu. The 42 paratypes in AMNH, all collected in 1926, are: Efate Island , AMNH 213003–213010 About AMNH , 223956 About AMNH , two males, seven females, 2 June, 21– 29 June ; Lelepa Island , AMNH 216268 About AMNH , 216269 About AMNH , 216294 About AMNH , 219897 About AMNH , two males, two females, 22 December ; Mataso Island , AMNH 213001 About AMNH , male, 22 July ; Makura Island , AMNH 212995–212998 About AMNH , 213012 About AMNH , four males, one female, 22–23 July ; Lopavi Island , AMNH 213011 About AMNH , 213663–213665 About AMNH , one male, three females, 9 August ; Ambrym Island , AMNH 212999 About AMNH , 213000 About AMNH , 213013 About AMNH , 213660– 213662 About AMNH , five males, one female, 14–16 August ; Malakula Island , AMNH 213666– 213668 About AMNH , three females, 20–26 August ; Santo Island , AMNH 214074 About AMNH , 214079 About AMNH , male, female, 31 August ; Gaua Island , Banks Islands, AMNH 213002 About AMNH , 214075 About AMNH , 214077 About AMNH , 214078 About AMNH , 216266 About AMNH , 216267 About AMNH , 216270 About AMNH , 216293 About AMNH , four males, three females, one sex?. I did not find specimens from Epi Island. Two specimens, AMNH 664804 About AMNH , 664805 About AMNH , with no information other than ‘‘ New Hebrides’ ’ were not considered paratypes .