Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932

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Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr

Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932: 28 (Ganonga Island, British Solomon Islands).

Now Myzomela eichhorni ganongae Mayr, 1932 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, Dickinson, 2003: 442, and Higgins et al., 2008: 651–652.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220206 , adult male, collected on Ghanongga (5 Ganonga) Island, Solomon Islands, on 20 October 1927, by Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28778).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had six male and two female specimens from Ghanongga, including the type. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 220207– 220211; females, AMNH 220212, 220213. Mayr (1932: 28) mentioned that Hartert (1929: 10) had examined only two of these specimens and, based on his limited material, identified them as M. e. atrata; those two specimens are marked atrata by Hartert and are AMNH 220206 (the holotype of ganongae) and AMNH 220212.

On 20 October, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at the village of Kumbokota, now called Pienuna, 08.02S, 156.36E (USBGN, 1974b), and expedition personnel collected between there and Mount Kela, 08.03S, 156.34E (USBGN, 1974b), according to Hamlin’s Journal S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.