Aplonis tabuensis rotumae Mayr, 1942

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 31

Aplonis tabuensis rotumae Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis rotumae Mayr, 1942: 4 (Rotuma Island, central Polynesia).

Now Aplonis tabuensis rotumae Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 77; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 253880 , adult male, collected on Rotuma Island , 12.30S, 177.05E (Times Atlas), Fiji, on 20 May 1925, by J.G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (17745).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Rotuma Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 253872, 253874–253879, 253881–253901, 18 males, eight females, two sex?, collected 18–20 May 1925. AMNH 253874 and 253875 were exchanged with DMNH and are now DMNH 18265 and 18266 (J. Woods, personal commun.).