Pomarea iphis 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 Murphy and Mathews

Pomarea iphis Murphy and Mathews, 1928: 6 (Huahuna Island, Marquesas).

Now Pomarea iphis iphis Murphy and Mathews, 1928 . See Holyoak and Thibault, 1984: 168, Cibois et al., 2004, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 298–299.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 196041 , adult male, collected on Ua Huka (5 Huahuna) Island, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, on 16 November 1922, by Ernest H. Quayle on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 6117).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes are specimens collected by the Whitney Expedition on Ua Huka during October and November 1922: AMNH 190751– 190767, 196039, 196040, and 196042–196081. Of these, AMNH 196047, 196050, 196061, 196067, and 196069 were exchanged to Rothschild and were renumbered AMNH 655360, 655361, 655362, 655364, and 655363, respectively, when they came back to AMNH. AMNH 190759 and 196053 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936, and AMNH 190755 was exchanged to ANSP in February 1938. I did not find AMNH 196045, 196049, 196064, 196065, and 196068 in the collection and it is probable that they were exchanged with other museums without the catalog having been so marked.