Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 32

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612202
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scientific name	Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr
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Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr, 1942: 3 (Boscawen Island, central Polynesia).

Now Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosa Mayr, 1942 View in CoL . See Amadon, 1962a: 78; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250787 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Tafahi (= Boscawen) Island , 15.52S, 173.55W (Times Atlas), Tonga, on 25 August 1925, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19151). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Tafahi (= Boscawen) and Niuatoputapu (= Keppel) islands. The following are paratypes: Tafahi , AMNH 224295 About AMNH , 250763–250784 About AMNH , 250786 About AMNH , 250788 About AMNH , 250788bis–250792 , 12 males, 16 females, one sex?, 24–25 August 1925 ; Niuatoputapu , AMNH 250785 About AMNH , 250793–250803 About AMNH , 250806 About AMNH , five males, eight females, 25–26 August 1925. AMNH 250776 About AMNH and 250788 were exchanged with DMNH and are numbered DMNH 18270 About DMNH and 18269, respectively ( J. Woods, personal commun.). Joe Hicks was a crew member on the Whitney Expedition vessel, France, who learned to prepare specimens.