Pachycephala melanonota Hartert

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 : 34

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scientific name

Pachycephala melanonota Hartert
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Pachycephala melanonota Hartert

Pachycephala melanonota Hartert, 1908: 106 (Vella Lavella I., Central Group of the Solomon Islands).

Now Pachycephala orioloides melanonota Hartert, 1908 View in CoL . See Galbraith, 1956: 197, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 658153 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Vella Lavella Island , 07.45S, 156.40E ( USBGN, 1974), Solomon Islands, on 23 February 1908, by collectors for A.S. Meek (no. 3834). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description; Rothschild and Hartert (1908: 358) listed the specimens in Meek’s collection, giving his field numbers. The following seven specimens are paratypes: AMNH 658154 About AMNH (Meek no. 3897), male ; AMNH 658155 About AMNH (3846), male ; AMNH 658156 About AMNH (3896), sexed as a male but considered a female juv. by Rothschild and Hartert ; AMNH 658157 About AMNH (3946), male ; AMNH 658158 About AMNH (3964), female ; AMNH 658159 About AMNH (3953), sexed as a female but considered a male juv. by Rothschild and Hartert ; and AMNH 658160 About AMNH (3765), female. Rothschild and Hartert (1908: pl. 13) illustrated the adult male of melanonota .

Galbraith (1956: 197), Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395), and Boles (2007: 421) considered melanonota a subspecies of P. pectoralis ; Dickinson (2003: 477) included melanonota in a Solomon Islands species, P. orioloides , in the pectoralis complex.

Boles, W. E. 2007. Family Pachycephalidae. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 374 - 437. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls, 436 photographs.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard & Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Galbraith, I. C. J. 1956. Variation, relationships and evolution in the Pachycephala pectoralis superspecies (Aves, Muscicapidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 4: 133 - 222, map.

Hartert, E. 1908. [Dr. Hartert exhibited and described examples of the following new forms from the Solomon Islands: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 21: 105 - 107.

Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1908. The birds of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 15: 351 - 358, pl. 13.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Pachycephala