Pinarolestes hamlini 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 : 197

Pinarolestes hamlini Mayr

Pinarolestes hamlini Mayr, 1931a: 23 (Rennell Island).

Now Clytorhynchus hamlini (Mayr, 1931) . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 393.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 226254 , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 29 August 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35321).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes are specimens from Rennell Island collected in August 1928 and May 1930: AMNH 226255–226268 and 226461–226475. Of these, AMNH 226257 and 226465 were exchanged to ANSP, AMNH 226266 and 226464 to ZMB in July 1936, and AMNH 226475 to J. Berlioz on 26 October 1932 (now in MHNP).

On Rennell Island, the Whitney Expedition vessel France 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 T, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).