Rhipidura rufifrons utupuae Mayr, 1931

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 236

Rhipidura rufifrons utupuae Mayr

Rhipidura rufifrons utupuae Mayr, 1931b: 17 (Utupua Island, Santa Cruz Group).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons utupuae Mayr, 1931 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 213917 , adult male, collected on Utupua Island , 11.20S, 166.30E (Times Atlas), Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands, on 28 September 1926, by Rollo H. Beck, Jose Correia, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 23013).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements of 14 specimens. Paratypes are AMNH 213915, 213916, 213918, 213919, 213925, 213944–213950, and 223735.

The label of this specimen is printed with F.P. Drowne’s name, but he had not yet joined the expedition, and the personnel at Utupua Island were the three mentioned above.

PETROICIDAE

Bock (1994: 153, 210) has shown that the family name Petroicidae Mathews (1920a: 61) has priority over Eopsaltriidae Mathews (1946: 80) .