Pomarea nigra CR

Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139 (1), pp. 28-45 : 40-41

TAHITI MONARCH Pomarea nigra CR

Muscicapa nigra Sparrman, 1786

MZUT AV2950; previously mounted; male; (Tahiti?); from Colombi, in 1846.

Remarks.—As the specimen’s provenance is uncertain, it might be referrable to one of the races of Marquesas Monarch Pomarea mendozae , i.e. P. m. mendozae (from Hiva Oa and Tahuata Island, Extinct) or P. m. motanensis (from Mohotani Island, Endangered).