Rhipidura drownei ocularis 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 drownei ocularis Mayr

Rhipidura drownei ocularis Mayr, 1931b: 12 (Guadalcanar Island, British Solomon Islands).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217672 , adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (5 Guadalcanar) Island, Solomon Islands, on 25 July 1927, by R.H. Beck and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 27084).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 217671, 217673, 217674, 217684, 219506–219518, 225387, and 225388. Of these, the following were exchanged in December 1931 and January 1932: AMNH 217671 to NRM, AMNH 219506 to Cleveland Museum of Natural History, AMNH 219508 to USNM, AMNH 219509 to ZMB, and AMNH 219512 to BBM.

When the holotype was collected, the Whitney Expedition vessel France was anchored in a bay near Cape Hunter and from there Beck and Hicks went ‘‘eastward to the big river’’ (5 the Irina River, ca. 09.50S, 159.50E). Their inland base was at 1800 ft and they collected from there to more than 4000 ft (R.H. Beck, unpublished journal D, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).