Conopoderas atypha flavida Murphy and Mathews

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 : 33

Conopoderas atypha flavida Murphy and Mathews

Conopoderas atypha flavida Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 16 (Napuka Island, Tuamotus).

Now Acrocephalus atyphus flavidus ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 73, del Hoyo et al., 2006: 629, and Cibois et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 195802 , adult male, collected on Napuka Island , 14.05S, 141.20W (Times Atlas), Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, on 11 December 1922, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 6736).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series was said to include ‘‘Specimens from Napuka collected during December, 1922’’. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 195803–195805. AMNH 195803 was exchanged to the DMNH.

Dickinson (2003: 585) listed flavidus as a subspecies of A. caffer and referenced other treatments.