Pachycephala pectoralis utupuae 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 : 35-36

Pachycephala pectoralis utupuae Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis utupuae Mayr, 1932b: 8 (Utupua, Santa Cruz Islands) .

Now Pachycephala vitiensis utupuae Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Mayr, 1967: 29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 214308 , adult female, collected on Utupua Island , 11.16S, 166.29E ( USBGN, 1974), Santa Cruz Islands , Solomon Islands, on 29 September 1926, by Jose Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 23012).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description but did not say how many specimens he examined. Paratypes are: AMNH 214253– 2 1 4 2 6 4, 214297–214307, 214309–214312, 215978, 216060–216062, and 224048. I did not find AMNH 214302, 214311, or 215978

in the collection and they may have been exchanged to other museums without the catalog having been marked.

Galbraith (1956: 204), Mayr (1967: 29), and Boles (2007: 421) included utupuae in the species P. pectoralis , and Dickinson (2003: 477) included Santa Cruz and Fijian subspecies in the species P. vitiensis .