Pomarea whitneyi Murphy and Mathews

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 : 195

Pomarea whitneyi Murphy and Mathews

Pomarea whitneyi Murphy and Mathews, 1928: 8 (Fatuhiva Island, Marquesas).

Now Pomarea whitneyi Murphy and Mathews, 1928 . See Holyoak and Thibault, 1984: 173, Cibois et al., 2004, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 299.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 195808 , adult male, collected on Oma’o (5 Fatuhiva) Island, 10.27S, 138.39W (Times Atlas), Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, on 6 December 1922, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 6670).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes are specimens collected on Oma’o by the Whitney Expedition in December 1922: AMNH 195806, 195807, and 195809–195856. AMNH 195826, 195828, 195843, and 195850 were exchanged with Rothschild and renumbered AMNH 655371, 655370, 655372, and 655373, respectively, when they came back to AMNH. AMNH 195830 and 221829 were exchanged to the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg in July 1929, and AMNH 195836 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. I did not find AMNH 195807, 195823, 195825, 195829, 195833, 195835, 195839, 195849, or 195855 in the collection, and it is probable that some of these were exchanged to other museums, although they are not so marked in the catalog.