Petroica multicolor taveunensis Holyoak, 1979

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 : 243

Petroica multicolor taveunensis Holyoak

Petroica multicolor taveunensis Holyoak, 1979: 14 (Taveuni) .

Now Petroica multicolor taveunensis Holyoak, 1979 . See Watling, 2001: 149–150.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 251435 , adult female, collected on Taveuni Island , Fiji, on 15 December 1924, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 16240).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description, and Holyoak noted that, in addition to the holotype, there were two adult males [AMNH 251429 and 251436], two immature males [AMNH 251432 and 251434], and a female fledgling [AMNH 251433] in AMNH. This latter specimen was apparently misidentified. Someone has written ‘‘?Myiagra’’ on the label. This seems to be correct, and the specimen appears to be a fledgling of Myiagra azureocapilla . A row of white pin feathers on the lower face corresponds to a white stripe in that position on the adult female of M. a. azureocapilla from Taveuni, but lack of comparative material makes this identification tentative. There are also four adult male and one adult female paratype in BMNH ( Holyoak, 1979: 15).

On Taveuni Island, the Whitney Expedition ship France was anchored off Somosomo, 16.46S, 179.58W (USBGN, 1974c) (Jose Correia unpublished journal, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).