Myiagra vanikorensis dorsalis Mayr, 1933

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 : 210

Myiagra vanikorensis dorsalis Mayr

Myiagra vanikorensis dorsalis Mayr, 1933c: 9 (Matuku Island, Fiji Islands).

Now Myiagra vanikorensis dorsalis Mayr, 1933 . See Watling, 2001: 158.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 223757 , adult female, collected on Matuku Island , 19.11S, 179.45E (Times Atlas), Yasayasa Moala Group, Fiji, on 3 July 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12893).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are other Whitney Expedition specimens from Matuku, Moala, and Totoya in the Yasayasa Moala Group and Wailangila, Naitamba, Yathata, Vatu varu, Avea, Sovu Rocks, Vanua mbalavu, Munia, Mango, and Thithia in the northern Lau Archipelago: AMNH 206561–206597, 223758, 251665–251688, 251774, and 251783–251797. Of these, AMNH 206594 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. I did not find AMNH 206572 and 206575 in the collection, and they were perhaps exchanged with other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.