Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr, 1942

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 : 32

Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr, 1942: 3 (Niuafou Island, central Polynesia).

Now Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 78; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250751 , adult male, collected on Niuafo’ou (= Niuafou) Island, 15.36S, 175.39W (Times Atlas ), Tonga, on 17 August 1925, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19041).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Niuafo’ou Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 224293, 250749, 250750, 250752–250762, 11 males, three females, 17–18 August 1925. AMNH 250754 and 250762 were exchanged with DMNH and are now DMNH 18261 and 18262, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.).