Pachycephala pectoralis koroana Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 37

Pachycephala pectoralis koroana Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis koroana Mayr, 1932b: 15 (Koro Island, Fiji Islands).

Now Pachycephala vitiensis koroana Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 198, Watling, 2001: 160– 161, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 252809 , adult male, collected on Koro Island , 17.20S, 179.25E (Times Atlas), Fiji, on 20 December 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 16400).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range of koroana given as Koro Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 224045, 252778–252788, 252807, 252808, and 252810–252814. I did not find AMNH 252787 and 252808 in the collection.

Galbraith (1956: 198), Watling (2001: 160– 161), and Boles (2007: 421) considered koroana to be a synonym of torquata in the species P. pectoralis ; Dickinson (2003: 477) recognized koroana and included it with the other Fijian forms in the species P. vitiensis .