Sanfordia lacertosa Murphy and Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 33

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scientific name	Sanfordia lacertosa Murphy and Mathews
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Sanfordia lacertosa Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 13 (Santa Cruz Island, Santa Cruz Group).

Now Woodfordia lacertosa ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929) . See Mees, 1969: 224–225, and van Balen, 2008: 479.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222157 View Materials , adult male, collected on Nendo (5 Santa Cruz) Island, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, on 26 February 1927 by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24822).

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, noting that they had eight males and nine females collected on Nendo Island , 23–27 February 1927. The 16 paratypes are: AMNH 218167–218173 View Materials , males ; AMNH 218174–218182 View Materials , females. Of these, AMNH 218173 View Materials was exchanged to NRM in June 1929, AMNH 218176 View Materials was exchanged to BMNH in November 1938, and AMNH 218181 View Materials was exchanged to ANSP in February 1938. AMNH 218171 View Materials and 218179 were exchanged to Rothschild and when that collection was cataloged at AMNH, these specimens were renumbered AMNH 701485 View Materials and 701486, respectively .

According to Beck’s Journal D, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in Byron Bay, 10.40S, 165.59E (USBGN, 1974), on 26 February 1927, and expedition personnel collected from the bay to the top of the island.