Clytorhynchus vitiensis layardi 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 layardi Mayr

Clytorhynchus vitiensis layardi Mayr, 1933b: 9 (Taviuni Island, Fiji Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 252357 , adult male,

collected on Taveuni (5 Taviuni) Island, on 13 December 1924, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 16176).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mayr credited Beck and Correia as collectors of this type, but on the original label both names are crossed out and ‘‘Hicks’’ written in. Hicks was one of the crew of the expedition ship France who learned to make specimens. Paratypes from Taveuni Island are: AMNH 252341–252344, 252346, 252350–252356, 252358–252360, and 252381–252383. I did not find AMNH 252343 and 252382 in the collection, and it is possible that they were exchanged to other museums and not so marked in the catalog.

According to the unpublished journal of Jose Correia (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), on 13 December 1924 the France, the expedition vessel, was anchored off Somosomo, 16.46S, 179.58W (USBGN, 1974c).

Mayr (1933b: 9–11) discussed in detail the nomenclatural history of the Taveuni form.