Monarcha chrysomela tabarensis 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 : 205

Monarcha chrysomela tabarensis Mayr

Monarcha chrysomela tabarensis Mayr, 1955: 31 (Tabar Island, Tabar Group).

Now Monarcha chrysomela tabarensis Mayr, 1955 . See Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 313.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 335534 , adult male, collected on Tabar Island, 03.00S, 152.00E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Tabar Group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 January 1935, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 46445).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 335535–335542.

On Tabar, the Coultases had a base camp at Lumburu, ca. 02.57S, 152.00E (W. Coultas, Vol. Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Department of Ornithology Archives).