Rhipidura rufifrons agilis Mayr, 1931

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 : 236

Rhipidura rufifrons agilis Mayr

Rhipidura rufifrons agilis Mayr, 1931b: 17 (Santa Cruz Island, Santa Cruz Group).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons agilis Mayr, 1931 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217529 , adult male, collected on Nendo (5 Santa Cruz) Island, Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands, on 24 February 1927, by Rollo H. Beck, Frederick P. Drowne, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24758).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr gave measurements of 20 specimens. Paratypes are AMNH 213951, 213952, 215856, 215857, 217525–217528, 217530– 217539, and 223732. Of these, the following were exchanged: AMNH 213951 to ZMB on 8 January 1932, AMNH 213952 to USNM in January 1932, AMNH 217526 to BBM on 21 January 1932, AMNH 217532 to CM in January 1932, and AMNH 217535 to Cleveland Museum of Natural History on 6 January 1932.

The Whitney Expedition ship France anchored in a bay south of Cape Byron (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives). Cape Byron is now known as Note Kanenggo, 10.41S, 166.05E (USBGN, 1974a).