Gerygone flavolateralis citrina Mayr, 1931

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 : 181

Gerygone flavolateralis citrina Mayr

Gerygone flavolateralis citrina Mayr, 1931a: 22 (Rennell Island).

Now Gerygone flavolateralis citrina Mayr, 1931 . See Meise, 1931: 348, Mayr, 1986b: 456, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 390.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 226506 , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 16 May 1930 by William F. Coultas, Walter J. Eyerdam, and Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 40100).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Mayr’s type series, in addition to the holotype, comprised five males and two females, collected in August 1928 and May 1930. The paratypes are: AMNH 225192– 225197 and 226507.

When these specimens were collected, the France (the Whitney Expedition vessel) was anchored in Kanggava Bay, 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974a) (5 Lughu Bay, Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. T, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).