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
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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
.