Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931

Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr View in CoL

Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931b: 21 View in CoL (Guadalcanar Island ( British Solomon Islands)).

Now Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931 View in CoL . See Amadon, 1962a: 81; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 400; Dickinson, 2003: 652; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 719.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218560 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (= Guadalcanar) Island , Solomon Islands (= British Solomon Islands), on 23 July 1927, by Rollo H. Beck and Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26862).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 218552–218559 , 223185–223195 , 223207–223218 , 17 males, 14 females, 16–25 April, 17–30 May, and 12–25 July 1927. On 23 July 1927, the expedition ship France was anchored near Cape Hunter and personnel had gone east to the Itina River, 09.48S, 159.51 E (USBGN, 1974a), from the mouth of which they collected up to 4000 feet.