Myiagra vanikorensis kandavensis 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 kandavensis Mayr

Myiagra vanikorensis kandavensis Mayr, 1933c: 9 (Kandavu, Fiji Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 251702 , adult male, collected on Kadavu (5 Kandavu) Island, Fiji, on 11 November 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 15596).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are 19 males and 5 females from Kadavu, the small islands of the Kadavu Group, Mbengha, and Vatu leile: AMNH 223754, 223755, 223760, 251692– 251701, 251703–251705, 251707, 251803, 251804, 251806, 251807, 251809, 251939, and 251941. Of these, I did not find AMNH 251964 from Mbulia Island in the collection.