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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Artamus leucorhynchus tenuis Mayr 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 , 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). 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 , 223956 , two males, seven females, 2 June , 21– 29 June ; Lelepa Island , AMNH 216268 , 216269 , 216294 , 219897 , two males, two females, 22 December ; Mataso Island , AMNH 213001 , male, 22 July ; Makura Island , AMNH 212995–212998 , 213012 , four males, one female, 22–23 July ; Lopavi Island , AMNH 213011 , 213663–213665 , one male, three females, 9 August ; Ambrym Island , AMNH 212999 , 213000 , 213013 , 213660– 213662 , five males, one female, 14–16 August ; Malakula Island , AMNH 213666– 213668 , three females, 20–26 August ; Santo Island , AMNH 214074 , 214079 , male, female, 31 August ; Gaua Island , Banks Islands , AMNH 213002 , 214075 , 214077 , 214078 , 216266 , 216267 , 216270 , 216293 , four males, three females, one sex?. I did not find specimens from Epi Island . Two specimens, AMNH 664804 , 664805 , with no information other than ‘‘ New Hebrides’ ’ were not considered paratypes .