Rhipidura rennelliana 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 : 228

Rhipidura rennelliana Mayr

Rhipidura rennelliana Mayr, 1931a: 25 (Rennell Island).

Now Rhipidura rennelliana Mayr, 1931 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 226.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 226459 , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 16 May 1930, by William F. Coultas, Walter J. Eyerdam, and Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 40112).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 225378–225386, 226458, and 226460. Of these, AMNH 225386 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. When the holotype was collected, the Whitney Expedition vessel France was anchored in Kanggava Bay, 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974a) (5 Lughu Bay, Hannibal Hamlin, unpublished journal T of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).