Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis ornata Mayr, 1932b: 8 (Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Islands) .

Now Pachycephala vitiensis ornata Mayr, 1932 View in CoL . See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Mayr, 1967: 29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218022 About AMNH , 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). GoogleMaps

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 About AMNH , 214293–214296 About AMNH , 218020 About AMNH , 218021 About AMNH , 218023–218043 About AMNH , 224017 About AMNH , 224028 About AMNH ; Nupani I., AMNH 214339 About AMNH , 214340 About AMNH , 215971 About AMNH , 215972 About AMNH , 216056–215058 About AMNH ; Lomlom I., AMNH 214341–214357 About AMNH , 215962–215969 About AMNH , 216049– 216055 About AMNH ; Fenualoa I., AMNH 214358 About AMNH , 215970 About AMNH , 216059 About AMNH ; Treasurers I., AMNH 214359–214362 About AMNH , 214388 About AMNH , 214389 About AMNH , 215955– 215959 About AMNH , 216042–216048 About AMNH ; and Taumako I. ( 5 Disappointment I.), AMNH 214363–214387 About AMNH , 215960 About AMNH , 215961 About AMNH , 216040 About AMNH , 216041 About AMNH , 224020 About AMNH , and 224021. Of these paratypes, AMNH 214356 About AMNH , 215964 About AMNH , and 218030 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 214366 About AMNH and 214388 were exchanged to J. Berlioz in October 1932 and are probably now in MHNP ; AMNH 218020 About AMNH 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 About AMNH ( Lomlom ), AMNH 214368 About AMNH , 214370 About AMNH , 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On 24 February 1926, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in a small bay south of Cape Byron (unpublished journals of Beck, vol.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 .