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 Aplonis grandis malaitae Mayr Aplonis grandis malaitae Mayr, 1931b: 22 ( Malaita Island, British Solomon Islands ). Now Aplonis grandis malaitae Mayr, 1931 . See Amadon, 1962a: 81 ; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 400 ; Dickinson, 2003: 652 ; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 719 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 227576 , adult male, collected on Malaita Island , Solomon Islands (= British Solomon Islands), on 26 February 1930 , by Hannibal Hamlin , William Coultas , and Walter Eyerdam on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39347). COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 227559–227575, 227577–227600 , 24 males , 17 females , 28 January–8 April 1930 . Of these, AMNH 227577 was exchanged to ANSP. On 28 February 1930 , the expedition ship France was anchored at Su’u, 09.10S , 150.55E (Times Atlas ). Mayr and Diamond (2001: 400) considered that A. grandis formed a superspecies with A. dichroa and that A.g. malaitae , listed as a megasubspecies, had distinctive characteristics. Craig and Feare (2009: 719) noted that malaitae may constitute a separate species.