Myzomela cruentata cantans Mayr, 1955

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 : 61-62

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475789
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scientific name	Myzomela cruentata cantans Mayr
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Myzomela cruentata cantans Mayr View in CoL

Myzomela cruentata cantans Mayr, 1955: 43 View in CoL (Tabar Island, Tabar group).

Now Myzomela cruentata cantans Mayr, 1955 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and Higgins et al., 2008: 639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 335582 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Tabar Island , Tabar Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 21 January 1935, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 45266).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and included Tabar Island and New Hanover Island specimens in cantans. He gave measurements for five males, two females, and one male juvenile from New Hanover , and eight males, three females, and one juvenile male from Tabar. In the following list of paratypes, I have indicated the sex as it appears on the collectors’ labels, but in the case of female-plumaged specimens from Tabar, I have remeasured the wings and put in brackets the sex that Mayr assigned them. Contra Salomonsen (1966b: 122), Mayr did not refer to any of these specimens as juvenile females. Paratypes: Tabar, AMNH 335571 About AMNH , 335572 About AMNH , adult males, AMNH 335573 About AMNH , immature male [immature male, 60.5 mm], AMNH 335574 About AMNH , immature male [female, 57.5], AMNH 335575 About AMNH , immature male [female, 58], and AMNH 335576–335581 About AMNH , males ; New Hanover , AMNH 693095–693098 About AMNH , males, AMNH 693099 About AMNH , immature male, AMNH 693100 About AMNH , female, AMNH 693101 About AMNH , male, and AMNH 693102 About AMNH , female. AMNH 693103 About AMNH and 693104, unsexed, from New Hanover, were not mentioned by Mayr but were available to him and are considered paratypes. AMNH 693102 About AMNH is also the holotype of M. c. lavongai (see above), and the other New Hanover specimens are paratypes .

According to Coultas’ volume Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, his base camp on Tabar Island was at Lumburu Village, ca. 02.57S, 152.00E, on the west coast of Tabar.