Coracina lineata makirae Mayr, 1935

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 62

Coracina lineata makirae Mayr

Coracina lineata makirae Mayr, 1935: 4 ( San Cristobal, Solomon Islands).

Now Coracina lineata makirae Mayr, 1935 . See Coates, 1990: 550, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227953 , adult male, collected on Makira (= San Cristobal) Island, 1900 ft, Solomon Islands, on 7 December 1929, by Ernst Mayr, William F. Coultas, and Walter J. Eyerdam on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 38609).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description but Mayr did not state the number of specimens. Later, he ( Mayr, 1936a: 13) listed his type series as three adult males, one immature male, and six adult females. This apparently excludes the type, as there are four adult males. These birds are labeled ‘‘Bauro’’, an old name for ‘‘San Cristobal’’. The 10 paratypes are: AMNH 218593–218597 and 227954–227958.

The journals of Coultas (vol. V, pp. 233–234), and Eyerdam (vol. U, pp. 10–11, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH) give the locality of their camp on 7 December 1929 as 15 miles inland from the east coast at Kira Kira (10°30′S, 161°55′E, Times Atlas) at a village called Huno­Galdaha or Hanagaraha, 1900 ft.