Coracina papuensis eyerdami Mayr, 1931

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 : 64

Coracina papuensis eyerdami Mayr

Coracina papuensis eyerdami Mayr, 1931b: 16 (Malaita Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Coracina papuensis eyerdami Mayr, 1931 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227189 , adult male, collected on Malaita Island , Solomon Islands, on 8 February 1930, by Hannibal Hamlin, Ernst Mayr, William F. Coultas, and Walter J. Eyerdam. From the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39186).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. AMNH 227180–227188, 27190–227195 (males), and 227196–227210 (females) are paratypes.

During the period when the holotype was collected, the Whitney Expedition schooner France was anchored at the village of Suú, 09°10′S, 160°55′E (Times Atlas), at the mouth of the Kwariekwa River (Hamlin, vol. T, p. 149, and Coultas, vol. V, p. 101, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, archives in the Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH).