Pachycephala pectoralis subsp. ornata Mayr
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephala

description: <i>Pachycephala pectoralis ornata</i> Mayr <i>Pachycephala pectoralis ornata</i> Mayr, 1932b: 8 (Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Islands). Now <i>Pachycephala vitiensis ornata</i> Mayr, 1932. See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Mayr, 1967: 29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 218022</b>, adult male, collected on Nendo (<i>5</i> 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 <i>ornata</i> the Northern Santa Cruz Group: Santa Cruz I., Nupani (<i>5</i> 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., <b>AMNH 214265</b>, <b>214293–214296</b>, <b>218020</b>, <b>218021</b>, <b>218023–218043</b>, <b>224017</b>, <b>224028</b>; Nupani I., <b>AMNH 214339</b>, <b>214340</b>, <b>215971</b>, <b>215972</b>, <b>216056–215058</b>; Lomlom I., <b>AMNH 214341–214357</b>, <b>215962–215969</b>, <b>216049– 216055</b>; Fenualoa I., <b>AMNH 214358</b>, <b>215970</b>, <b>216059</b>; Treasurers I., <b>AMNH 214359–214362</b>, <b>214388</b>, <b>214389</b>, <b>215955– 215959</b>, <b>216042–216048</b>; and Taumako I. (<i>5</i> Disappointment I.), <b>AMNH 214363–214387</b>, <b>215960</b>, <b>215961</b>, <b>216040</b>, <b>216041</b>, <b>224020</b>, and <b>224021</b>. 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, <i>France</i>, 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 (<i>5</i> Cape Byron) is at 10.41S, 166.05E (USBGN, 1974). In the original description, Mayr noted that the specimens of <i>ornata</i> appeared to be closely related to Fijian forms. Galbraith (1956: 204), Mayr (1967: 29), and Boles, (2007: 421) placed <i>ornata</i> as a subspecies of <i>P. pectoralis</i>, and Dickinson (2003: 477) included <i>ornata</i> with the Fijian group of populations in the species <i>P. vitiensis</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And &amp; 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)</i> on page 36
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