Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 36

Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr, 1932b: 8 (Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Islands) .

Now Pachycephala vitiensis ornata Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Mayr, 1967: 29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218022 , adult male, collected on Nendo (5 Santa Cruz) Island, 10.45S, 165.54E ( USBGN, 1974), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, on 24 February 1927, by Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21774).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave as the range of ornata the Northern Santa Cruz Group : Santa Cruz I., Nupani (5 Nepani ) in the Swallow Islands , Lomlom and Fenualoa in the Reef Islands , and Treasurers Island and Disappointment Island in the Duff Islands. Paratypes are: Santa Cruz I., AMNH 214265 , 214293–214296 , 218020 , 218021 , 218023–218043 , 224017 , 224028 ; Nupani I., AMNH 214339 , 214340 , 215971 , 215972 , 216056–215058 ; Lomlom I., AMNH 214341–214357 , 215962–215969 , 216049– 216055 ; Fenualoa I., AMNH 214358 , 215970 , 216059 ; Treasurers I., AMNH 214359–214362 , 214388 , 214389 , 215955– 215959 , 216042–216048 ; and Taumako I. (5 Disappointment I.), AMNH 214363–214387 , 215960 , 215961 , 216040 , 216041 , 224020 , and 224021. Of these paratypes, AMNH 214356 , 215964 , and 218030 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 214366 and 214388 were exchanged to J. Berlioz in October 1932 and are probably now in MHNP ; AMNH 218020 was exchanged to BMNH in July 1936. I did not find the following specimens in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked: AMNH 214346 ( Lomlom ), AMNH 214368 , 214370 , and 214376 (Disappointment) .

On 24 February 1926, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in a small bay south of Cape Byron (unpublished journals of Beck, vol. D, and Drowne, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH). Note Kanenggo (5 Cape Byron) is at 10.41S, 166.05E (USBGN, 1974).

In the original description, Mayr noted that the specimens of ornata appeared to be closely related to Fijian forms. Galbraith (1956: 204), Mayr (1967: 29), and Boles, (2007: 421) placed ornata as a subspecies of P. pectoralis , and Dickinson (2003: 477) included ornata with the Fijian group of populations in the species P. vitiensis .