Vitia parens 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

Vitia parens Mayr

Vitia parens Mayr, 1935: 4 ( San Cristobal, Solomon Islands).

Now Cettia parens (Mayr, 1935) . See Orenstein and Pratt, 1983, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 391.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 228063 , adult male, collected on Makira (5 San Cristobal) Island, 1900 ft, Solomon Islands, on 11 December 1929, by W.F. Coultas, W.J. Eyerdam, and E. Mayr on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 38662).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, but did not list his specimens. There are five paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 228061, 228062, 228064–228066, three males and two females collected on San Cristobal, 7–14 December 1929.

From 1 to 21 December, the expedition party was based at the village of Huno Galdaha, 15 mi inland from Kira Kira, 10.30S, 161.55E (Times Atlas), according to the unpublished journal of William Coultas (Vol. 5: 233–234, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).