Pomarea iphis fluxa 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 : 194

Pomarea iphis fluxa Murphy and Mathews

Pomarea iphis fluxa Murphy and Mathews, 1928: 7 (Eiao Island, Marquesas).

Now Pomarea iphis fluxa Murphy and Mathews, 1928 . See Holyoak and Thibault, 1984: 169, Cibois et al., 2004, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 298–299.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 195919 , collected on Eiao Island , 08.00S, 140.40W (Times Atlas), Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, on 22 (not 27) September 1922, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 5077).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes are specimens collected on Eiao by the Whitney Expedition in September and October 1922: AMNH 195905–195918, 195920–196967, 221820, and 221830. Of these, AMNH 195913, 195916, 195925, 195957, and 195959 were exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered AMNH 655365, 655367, 655366, 655369, and 655368, respectively, when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. AMNH 195917 and 195927 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936, and AMNH 195948 was exchanged to ANSP in February 1938. I did not find AMNH 195911, 195914, 195930, 195933, 195941, 195946, 195950, 195951, and 195966 in the collection and it is probable that they were exchanged with other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.