Clytorhynchus vitiensis pontifex 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 : 196

Clytorhynchus vitiensis pontifex Mayr

Clytorhynchus vitiensis pontifex Mayr, 1933b: 11 (Ngamia Island, Fiji Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 252318 , adult male, collected on Qamea (5 Ngamia) Island, Fiji, on 25 November 1925, by Virginia Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 15724).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr gave Beck and Correia as collectors of this type, but on the original label Beck’s name is crossed out and ‘‘Mrs.’’ is written next to J.G. Correia.

Paratypes from Qamea and Rambi islands are: AMNH 223967, 223979, 252280, 252315– 252317, 252319, and 252327–252333. Of these, I did not find AMNH 252280 and 252317 in the collection, and it is possible that they were exchanged to other museums and not so marked in the catalog.