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 tabuensis manuae
Mayr
Aplonis tabuensis manuae
Mayr, 1942: 1
(Tau,
Manua
Islands,
American Samoa
).
Now
Aplonis tabuensis manuae
Mayr, 1942
. See
Amadon, 1962a: 78
;
Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274
;
Dickinson, 2003: 652–653
; and
Craig and Feare, 2009: 723
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 202277
, adult male, collected on
Tau Island
,
14.15S
,
169.27W
(Times
Atlas
),
Manua
Islands
,
American Samoa
, on
21 December 1923
, by
Rollo H. Beck
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 10878).
COMMENTS:
Mayr
gave the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range as the
Manua
Islands of Ofu
,
Olosega
and
Tau.
Paratypes
are:
Olosega
(=
Olosinga
, as on label),
AMNH 202227–202249
,
11 males
,
11 females
, 1 sex?,
31 December 1923
–
7 January 1924
;
Ofu Island
,
AMNH 202253–202266
, nine males, five females,
7–9 January 1924
;
Tau Island
,
AMNH 202267–202276
,
202278– 202313
,
224288
,
25 males
,
22 females
,
14–29 December 1923
.
Of
these
AMNH 202267
was sent to BBM in 1932
;
AMNH 202292
and 202298 were exchanged with
DMNH
and are now numbered
DMNH 18274
and 18273, respectively (J.
Woods
, personal commun.)
.