Hirundo tahitica viridissima Meise

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 34

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scientific name	Hirundo tahitica viridissima Meise
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Hirundo tahitica viridissima Meise, 1929: 462 (Madu) . Now Hirundo tahitica javanica Sparrman, 1789 View in CoL . See

White and Bruce, 1986: 298.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 266526 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Madu Island , 07°31′S, 121°47′E (Times Atlas), Indonesia, on 28 May 1927, by Baron Viktor von Plessen (no. 235). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Meise (1929: 462) cited von Plessen’s field number in the original description and listed five paratypes. Two of these are AMNH 266525 About AMNH , male, 12 May 1927, Kalaotoa Island , von Plessen no. 123 ; and AMNH 266527 About AMNH , female, 3 May 1927, Kalaotoa Island , von Plessen no. 27. The other three are probably in ZMB, where half of the collection was deposited ( Meise, 1929: 433) .

References

Meise, W. 1929. Die Vogel von Djampea und benachbarten Inseln nach einer Sammlung Baron Plessens. Journal fur Ornithologie 77: 431 - 480.

White, C. M. N., and M. D. Bruce. 1986. The birds of Wallacea. British Ornithologists' Union check-list no. 7. London: British Ornithologists' Union, 524 pp.