Clytorhynchus vitiensis keppeli 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 : 197

Clytorhynchus vitiensis keppeli Mayr

Clytorhynchus vitiensis keppeli Mayr, 1933b: 16 (Keppel Island, Pacific Ocean, between Samoa and Tonga).

Now Clytorhynchus vitiensis keppeli Mayr, 1933 . See Watling, 2001: 156.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250422 , adult male, collected on Niuatoputapu (5 Keppel) Island, 15.57S, 173.45W ( USBGN, 1956b), Tonga, on 26 August 1925, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19178).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes from Niuatoputapu and Tafahi (5 Boscawen) are: AMNH 223966, 250379– 250421, and 250423–250433. Of these, I did not find AMNH 250386, 250411, 250419, and 250421 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other museums without the catalog having been so marked. AMNH 250418 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936.