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
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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 View Materials , 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 View Materials , 223956 View Materials , two males, seven females, 2 June, 21– 29 June ; Lelepa Island , AMNH 216268 View Materials , 216269 View Materials , 216294 View Materials , 219897 View Materials , two males, two females, 22 December ; Mataso Island , AMNH 213001 View Materials , male, 22 July ; Makura Island , AMNH 212995–212998 View Materials , 213012 View Materials , four males, one female, 22–23 July ; Lopavi Island , AMNH 213011 View Materials , 213663–213665 View Materials , one male, three females, 9 August ; Ambrym Island , AMNH 212999 View Materials , 213000 View Materials , 213013 View Materials , 213660– 213662 View Materials , five males, one female, 14–16 August ; Malakula Island , AMNH 213666– 213668 View Materials , three females, 20–26 August ; Santo Island , AMNH 214074 View Materials , 214079 View Materials , male, female, 31 August ; Gaua Island , Banks Islands, AMNH 213002 View Materials , 214075 View Materials , 214077 View Materials , 214078 View Materials , 216266 View Materials , 216267 View Materials , 216270 View Materials , 216293 View Materials , four males, three females, one sex?. I did not find specimens from Epi Island. Two specimens, AMNH 664804 View Materials , 664805 View Materials , with no information other than ‘‘ New Hebrides’ ’ were not considered paratypes .