Pomarea mendozae mira 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 : 193

Pomarea mendozae mira Murphy and Mathews

Pomarea mendozae mira Murphy and Mathews, 1928: 4 (Huapu Island, Marquesas).

Now Pomarea mendozae mira Murphy and Mathews, 1928 . See Holyoak and Thibault, 1984: 170, Cibois et al., 2004, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 298.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 195881 , adult female, collected on Ua Pou (5 Huapu) Island, 09.25S, 140.00W (Times Atlas), Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, on 4 November 1922, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 5885).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes are specimens collected on Ua Pou by the Whitney Expedition during October 1921 and September and November 1922: AMNH 190746–190750, 195857–195880, 195882– 195904, 199019–199021, 221823, and 221827. Of these, four were exchanged with Rothschild and were renumbered when they returned to AMNH: AMNH 195868 (5 655356), 195872 (5 655357), 195876 (5 655359), and 195891 (5 655358). AMNH 195860 and 195896 were exchanged to the Academy of Science, Leningrad, in July 1929. I did not find the following paratypes in the collection, and some may have been exchanged without having been so marked in the catalog, as was the case with the specimens that went to the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 190746, 195862, 195864, 195875, 195880, 195895, 195903, and 199020.