Conopoderas atypha niauensis 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 niauensis Murphy and Mathews

Conopoderas atypha niauensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 13 (Niau Island, Tuamotus).

Now Acrocephalus atyphus niauensis ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 72, del Hoyo et al., 2006: 629, and Cibois et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 199952 , adult male, collected on Niau Island , 16.09S, 146.20W (Times Atlas), Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, on 13 September 1921, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 1329).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and measurements were given for 17 males and 3 females. The type series was said to include ‘‘Specimens from Niau, collected during September, 1921, and August, 1922’’. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 190427–190436 and 195613–195621. Of these, AMNH 190430 and 195617 had been exchanged to the Rothschild Collection, and when that collection was purchased by AMNH, they were renumbered 594971 and 594972, respectively. AMNH 195616 was exchanged to CM on 15 June 1929 and AMNH 195618 to NRM on 14 June 1929. I did not find AMNH 190432 and 195620 in the collection, and these may have been exchanged with other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.

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