Myzomela cardinalis sanfordi Mayr, 1931

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 67-68

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scientific name	Myzomela cardinalis sanfordi Mayr
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Myzomela cardinalis sanfordi Mayr View in CoL

Myzomela cardinalis sanfordi Mayr, 1931a: 27 View in CoL (Rennell Island).

Now Myzomela cardinalis sanfordi Mayr, 1931 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and Higgins et al., 2008: 645–646.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 226534 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 22 May 1930, by Hannibal Hamlin, William F. Coultas, and W.J. Eyerdam on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 40158).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description but did not give the number of specimens

examined. The following specimens from Rennell taken by the Whitney Expedition are paratypes of sanfordi : males, AMNH 226364–226375 About AMNH , 226528 About AMNH , 226529 About AMNH , 226531– 226533 About AMNH , 226536 About AMNH ; females, AMNH 226376– 226379 About AMNH , 226530 About AMNH , 226535 About AMNH . Of these, AMNH 226365 About AMNH and 226379 were exchanged to ZMB in 1936, AMNH 226370 About AMNH was exchanged to USNM in 1932, and AMNH 226374 About AMNH was exchanged to BBM in 1932 .

The expedition vessel, France, anchored in Lughu (5 Kunggava or Kungava) Bay, 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974b), during the time spent on Rennell. Further information on the birds of Rennell is given in Mayr and Hamlin (1931).