Aplonis tabuensis tucopiae 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 tucopiae Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis tucopiae Mayr, 1942: 5 (Tucopia Island, east of Santa Cruz Islands).

Now Aplonis tabuensis tucopiae Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 77; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 216382 , adult male, collected on Tikopia (= Tucopia) Island, 12.10S, 168.50E (Times Atlas ), Solomon Islands, on 11 February 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24655).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype and included only specimens from Tikopia. The following are paratypes: AMNH 216383–216387, 218492–218496, two males, eight females, 11–12 February 1927. Tikopia is east of the Santa Cruz Islands, not part of that group, as was noted by Mayr in the original description.