Myzomela cardinalis malaitae Mayr

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 : 69

Myzomela cardinalis malaitae Mayr

Myzomela cardinalis malaitae Mayr, 1931b: 25 (Malaita Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Myzomela malaitae Mayr, 1931 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 652.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227476 , adult male, collected on Malaita Island , Solomon Islands, on 9 February 1930, by Ernst Mayr , Hannibal Hamlin , William Coultas , and Walter Eyerdam on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39197).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; paratypes, collected on Malaita in January through April 1930, are: males, AMNH 227454–227475 , 227477–227500 ; females, AMNH 227501–227514 ; unsexed specimens, AMNH 227515–227517 . Of these, the following were exchanged in 1932: AMNH 227459 , 227478 , 227483 , 227496 , 227509 to the Cleveland Museum ; AMNH 227462 , 227465 , 227480 to ZMB ; AMNH 227467 , 227495 , 227507 , 227510 to BBM ; AMNH 227477 , 227513 to CM ; AMNH 227479 , 227499 , 227503 to USNM ; and AMNH 227489 to Berlioz , whose collection is now in MHNP .

On 9 February 1930, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in Su’u Harbour, 09.10S, 160.56E (USBGN, 1974b), according to Coultas’ journal, volume V, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.