Pachycephala pectoralis subsp. pavuvu 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 pavuvu</i> Mayr <i>Pachycephala pectoralis pavuvu</i> Mayr, 1932a: 15 (Banika Island, Pavuvu or Russel [sic] group, British Solomon Islands). Now <i>Pachycephala orioloides pavuvu</i> Mayr, 1932. See Galbraith, 1956: 197, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 218101</b>, adult female, collected on Mbanika (<i>5</i> Banika) Island, 09.10S, 159.10E (Times Atlas), Russell Group, Solomon Islands, on 1 August 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 27161). COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description and 40 specimens, including the type, were said to have been collected on Mbanika, Pavuvu, and Moie islands in the Russell Group. I found only 39 specimens cataloged from those three islands. The 38 paratypes are: <b>AMNH 218095–218100</b>, <b>2 1 8 1 0 2</b>, <b>218103</b>, <b>219934–219939</b>, <b>222806– 2 2 2 8 1 5</b>, and <b>222861–222874</b>. Of these, AMNH 218103 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. There are two specimens of <i>pavuvu</i> from Keome Island in the Russell Group, but I do not consider them paratypes as this island was not mentioned as a locality in the original description. On Mbanika, the expedition schooner ‘‘ <i>France</i> ’’ was anchored at Lifola Plantation. Galbraith (1956: 197) considered <i>pavuvu</i> a synonym of <i>Pachycephala pectoralis orioloides</i>, Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395) and Boles (2007: 421) recognized it as a valid subspecies of <i>P. pectoralis</i>, and Dickinson (2003: 477) included it as a valid subspecies of the Solomons species <i>P. orioloides</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 pages 32-33
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