Pachycephala pectoralis subsp. ornata Mayr

• Main Authors: Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And, Lecroy, Mary
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• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Pachycephalidae; Pachycephala; Pachycephala pectoralis; Pachycephala pectoralis ornata mayr; Beck; Elliott; Duff; Small Bay; Disappointment Island; Lynx
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5464293; https://zenodo.org/record/5464293

Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr, 1932b: 8 (Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Islands). Now Pachycephala vitiensis ornata Mayr, 1932. See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Mayr, 1967: 29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218022 , adult male, collected on Nendo ( 5 Santa Cruz) Island, 10.45S, 165.54E (USBGN, 1974), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, on 24 February 1927, by Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21774). COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave as the range of ornata the Northern Santa Cruz Group: Santa Cruz I., Nupani ( 5 Nepani) in the Swallow Islands, Lomlom and Fenualoa in the Reef Islands, and Treasurers Island and Disappointment Island in the Duff Islands. Paratypes are: Santa Cruz I., AMNH 214265 , 214293–214296 , 218020 , 218021 , 218023–218043 , 224017 , 224028 Nupani I., AMNH 214339 , 214340 , 215971 , 215972 , 216056–215058 Lomlom I., AMNH 214341–214357 , 215962–215969 , 216049– 216055 Fenualoa I., AMNH 214358 , 215970 , 216059 Treasurers I., AMNH 214359–214362 , 214388 , 214389 , 215955– 215959 , 216042–216048 and Taumako I. ( 5 Disappointment I.), AMNH 214363–214387 , 215960 , 215961 , 216040 , 216041 , 224020 , and 224021 . Of these paratypes, AMNH 214356, 215964, and 218030 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936; AMNH 214366 and 214388 were exchanged to J. Berlioz in October 1932 and are probably now in MHNP; AMNH 218020 was exchanged to BMNH in July 1936. I did not find the following specimens in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked: AMNH 214346 (Lomlom), AMNH 214368, 214370, and 214376 (Disappointment). On 24 February 1926, the expedition vessel, France , was anchored in a small bay south of Cape Byron (unpublished journals of Beck, vol. D, and Drowne, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH). Note Kanenggo ( 5 Cape Byron) is at 10.41S, 166.05E (USBGN, 1974). In the original description, Mayr noted that the specimens of ornata appeared to be closely related to Fijian forms. Galbraith (1956: 204), Mayr (1967: 29), and Boles, (2007: 421) placed ornata as a subspecies of P. pectoralis , and Dickinson (2003: 477) included ornata with the Fijian group of populations in the species P. vitiensis . : Published as part of 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:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 36 : {"references": ["Mayr, E. 1932 b. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXI. Notes on thickheads (Pachycephala) from Polynesia. American Museum Novitates 531: 1 - 23.", "Galbraith, I. C. J. 1956. Variation, relationships and evolution in the Pachycephala pectoralis superspecies (Aves, Muscicapidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 4: 133 - 222, map.", "Mayr, E. 1967. Family Muscicapidae, Subfamily Pachycephalinae and Genus Incertae sedis. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, volume 12: 1 - 52. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 495 pp.", "Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard & Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.", "Boles, W. E. 2007. Family Pachycephalidae. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 374 - 437. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls, 436 photographs."]}