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 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.) .