Pachycephala pectoralis tabarensis 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 : 31

Pachycephala pectoralis tabarensis Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis tabarensis Mayr, 1955: 35 (Tabar Island, Tabar group).

Now Pachycephala citreogaster tabarensis Mayr, 1955 . See Galbraith, 1956: 203, Coates, 1990: 209–211, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 335560 , adult female, collected on Tabar Island , 02.58S, 152.07E (Times Atlas), Tabar Group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 January 1935, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 45262).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements for seven adult males, two adult females, and three immature females. There are seven male and four female paratypes: AMNH 335552–335558 and 335559, 335561–335563, collected between 14 and 29 January 1935. The Coultases base camp on Tabar was at Lumburu (Coultas, vol. Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH), ca. 02.57S, 152.00E.

Galbraith (1956: 203), Coates (1990: 209– 211), Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395), and Boles (2007: 421) considered tabarensis a subspecies of P. pectoralis ; Dickinson (2003: 477) included tabarensis in P. citreogaster .