Hirundo tahitica ambiens Mayr, 1934

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 34

Hirundo tahitica ambiens Mayr

Hirundo tahitica ambiens Mayr, 1934: 12 (Wide Bay, New Britain).

Now Hirundo tahitica ambiens Mayr, 1934 . See Coates, 1990: 26, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 388.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 417431 , adult male, collected at Mavlo (= Mavelo), Wide Bay, New Britain, on 10 January 1933, by William F. Coultas. From the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 44395).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. The 14 paratypes are AMNH 334310–334323.

Mavelo was an abandoned sawmill, inland about a mile from the mouth of the Mavelo River, 04°55′S, 151°40′E ( Papua New Guinea General Reference Map, 1984), and not far from Tol Plantation (Coultas, unpublished journal in Department of Ornithology Archives, AMNH).