Pomarea mendozae motanensis 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 motanensis Murphy and Mathews

Pomarea mendozae motanensis Murphy and Mathews, 1928: 4 (Motane Island, Marquesas).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 196087 , adult male, collected on Motane Island , 10.00S, 140.33W (Times Atlas), Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, on 22 November 1922, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 6427).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes are specimens collected by the Whitney Expedition on Motane in November 1922: AMNH 196082–196086, 196088– 196139, 199013, and 199014. Of these specimens, four were exchanged with the Rothschild Collection and then renumbered when that collection came to AMNH: AMNH 196083 (5 AMNH 655352), 196101 (5 655353), 196111 (5 655355), and 196127 (5 655354). AMNH 196115 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. I did not find the following paratypes in the collection: AMNH 196082, 196084, 196099, 196102, 196112, 196124, 196125, and 196131. Because the specimens that had gone to the Rothschild Collection were not so marked in the catalog, it is likely that the other missing specimens were also exchanged with other museums.