Pachycephala pectoralis efatensis 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 : 35

Pachycephala pectoralis efatensis Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis efatensis Mayr, 1938a: 2 (Efate Island, New Hebrides).

Now Pachycephala caledonica intacta Sharpe, 1900 . See Galbraith, 1956: 201, Mayr, 1967: 28–29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212746 , adult male, collected on Efate Island , Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 14 June 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21068).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range of efatensis as Efate and Nguna islands, Vanuatu. Mayr’s (1932b: 3– 6) measurements of 29 Efate specimens included those that would later ( Mayr, 1938a: 2) become part of his type series of efatensis. Paratypes are: Efate, AMNH 212747–212773, 214327, 216000, 224034, and 224037; Nguna, AMNH 212736 and 212787. Of these, I did not find 212748 and 212760 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked. On 14 June 1926, Beck was in Port Vila (Beck, unpublished journal D, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH), 17.44S, 168.19E (USBGN, 1974).

Galbraith (1956: 201) considered efatensis a synonym of P. pectoralis chlorura ; Mayr (1967: 28–29) recognized chlorura as a valid subspecies, but included efatensis as a synonym of P. pectoralis intacta , as did Boles (2007: 421); Dickinson (2003: 477) included subspecies from the Santa Cruz Islands to New Caledonia, including intacta, in a separate species Pachycephala caledonica .