Pachycephala pectoralis centralis 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 : 33

Pachycephala pectoralis centralis Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis centralis Mayr, 1932a: 15 (Vangunu Island, central Solomon Islands).

Now Pachycephala orioloides centralis Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 198, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395, Dickinson, 2003: 477, Boles, 2007: 421, and Jønsson et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222899 , adult female, collected on Vangunu Island , Solomon Islands, on 26 July 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 34847).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. A total of 98 specimens from the four islands of Vangunu, Gatukai, New Georgia, and Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) were collected in September and October 1927 and June and July 1928. The 97 paratypes are: AMNH 219951–219957, 222875–222898, 222900–222954, 222976–222985, and 226363. Of these AMNH 219955 and 222980 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. I did not find AMNH 222918, 222926, and 222927

in the collection; they were perhaps exchanged to other museums without the catalog having been marked.

On Vangunu, the expedition schooner ‘‘ France ’’ had anchored at Emma Point, 08.42S, 158.04E (USBGN, 1974), and personnel moved inland to camp at 2100 ft, working upward from there to about 3500 ft. The exact altitude where the type was collected was not noted, but Hamlin (vol. S, unpublished journals, Whitney South Sea Expedition, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH) commented that the ‘‘thickheads’’ were expected above about 2500 ft and ‘‘It is an odd specimen of this tribe that fools around below 1000 feet.’’

Galbraith (1956: 198), Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395), and Boles (2007: 421) retained centralis in P. pectoralis , while Dickinson (2003: 477) and Jønsson et al. (2008) separated Solomon Island subspecies in the species Pachycephala orioloides .