Vitia ruficapilla castaneoptera Mayr

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 7-8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
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scientific name	Vitia ruficapilla castaneoptera Mayr
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Vitia ruficapilla castaneoptera Mayr, 1935: 5 (Vanua Levu, Fiji).

Now Cettia ruficapilla castaneoptera (Mayr, 1935) . See Orenstein and Pratt, 1983, and Watling, 2001: 148.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 252011 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Vanua Levu Island , Fiji, on 3 February 1925, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 17008).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, without indicating the number of specimens. Although only the male was described, females collected at the same time were also in Mayr’s hand when the subspecies was described. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 224389 About AMNH , 251973–251984 About AMNH , 252010 About AMNH , and 252012–252015, collected on Vanua Levu in January and February 1925. AMNH 224389 About AMNH was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 251974 About AMNH and 251975 were exchanged to DMNH in 1972 .

According to the unpublished journal of Rollo Beck (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), on 3 February 1925, the France was anchored in Savusavu Bay, 16.48S, 179.20E (Times Atlas).