Erythrura cyanovirens (sic) efatensis Mayr

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 112-113

Erythrura cyanovirens (sic) efatensis Mayr

Erythrura cyanovirens (sic) efatensis Mayr, 1931: 8 (Efate Island, New Hebrides).

Now Erythrura cyaneovirens serena (P.L. Sclater, 1881) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 366; Ziswiler et al., 1972: 65–67; Bregulla, 1992: 264–266; Dickinson, 2003: 733–734; and Payne, 2010: 347– 348.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 213017 , adult male, collected on Efate Island , Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 30 June 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21255).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed 26 specimens, including the holotype: 16 adult males, two juvenile males, seven adult females, and one juvenile female. Only 25 specimens were cataloged at AMNH and I consider the following 24 specimens to be paratypes of E.c. efatensis: AMNH 213014–213016 , 213018–213029 , 15 males, AMNH 213030 , sex?, AMNH 213031– 213037 , seven females, AMNH 213038 , female?, all collected on Efate Island between 28 June and 21 July 1926 by members of the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Nine of these specimens were exchanged to other institutions: AMNH 213019 and 213036 to USNM in January 1932 ; AMNH 213020 to ZMB in January 1932, AMNH 213026 and 213028 to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 213022 to the Swedish Museum in December 1931 ; AMNH 213024 to the Cleveland Museum in January 1932 ; and AMNH 213027 and 213033 to BBM in January 1932. During the period when these specimens were collected, the Whitney Expedition ship France was anchored in Undine Bay, ca. 17.32S, 168.22E, and collecting was done inland from there (Archives, Department of Ornithology) .

In the most recent study of this species, Payne (2010: 347–348) recommended synonymizing efatensis with serena. Ziswiler et al., 1972: 65–67, and Bregulla (1992: 264–266) recommended synonymizing both with regia. The correct spelling of this species name is cyaneovirens .