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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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.