Lalage leucomela tabarensis Mayr, 1955

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 : 73

Lalage leucomela tabarensis Mayr

Lalage leucomela tabarensis Mayr, 1955: 9 (Tabar Island, Tabar Group).

Now Lalage leucomela tabarensis Mayr, 1955 . See

Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 335518 , adult male, collected on Tabar Island , Tabar Group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 24 January 1935, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 46395).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. AMNH 335516, 335517, and 335519–335524 are paratypes.

Coultas (unpublished journal, Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH) was at Lumburu, ca. 02°57′S, 152°00′E (Joint Operations Graphic, 1: 250,000, ser. 1501, sheet SA56­ 10) on 24 January 1935.