Phylloscopus trivirgatus bougainvillei 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 : 66

Phylloscopus trivirgatus bougainvillei Mayr

Phylloscopus trivirgatus bougainvillei Mayr, 1935: 5 (Bougainville, Solomon Islands).

Now Phylloscopus poliocephalus bougainvillei Mayr, 1935 . See Coates, 1990: 81–82, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 671–672.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 225174 , adult male, collected on Bougainville Island , North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 January 1928, by Frederick P. Drowne (no. 141), on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr (1936: 17) gave measurements of 12 males and 3 females, but there were 23 specimens in the type series. The 22 paratypes are: AMNH 225169–225173 and 225175– 225191. AMNH 225169 was exchanged with ZMB in July 1936.

The Whitney Expedition personnel were camped near the village of Kupei, ca. 06.15S, 155.27E, inland from Arawa Bay. The altitude at the camp was only about 2300 ft, but a trail led from the camp to the top of the ridge at 5200 ft (unpublished journals of Hannibal Hamlin and Frederick Drowne, Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH).