Petroica multicolor kulambangrae Mayr, 1934

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 : 245

Petroica multicolor kulambangrae Mayr

Petroica multicolor kulambangrae Mayr, 1934b: 16 (Kulambangra Island, Solomon Islands).

Now Petroica multicolor kulambangrae Mayr, 1934 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 219373 , immature male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) Island, Solomon Islands, on 13 October 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28568).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements of two adult males, four immature males (including the type), two adult females, and one immature female. The eight paratypes are AMNH 215369–215372, 215374, 215375, 225202, and 225203.

On Kolombangara, the expedition ship France was anchored in Ariel Cove (now Meresu Cove, 08.02S, 156.57E, USBGN, 1974), and personnel collected inland from there (unpublished journal of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. S, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).