Rhipidura rufifrons commoda Hartert, 1918

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 : 234

Rhipidura rufifrons commoda Hartert

Rhipidura rufifrons commoda Hartert, 1918b: 60 (Bougainville).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons commoda Hartert, 1918 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650772 , adult male, collected at Arawa (5 Harawa, as on label), 06.15S, 155.30E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Bougainville Island , North Solomons Province , Papua New Guinea, on 26 December 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3669). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description ; he listed four males and three females from Bougainville and two specimens from Choiseul in his type series. Paratypes are: Bougainville, males, AMNH 650773– 650775 , females, AMNH 650776–650778 ; Choiseul, females, AMNH 650779 and 650780 .