Pachycephala pectoralis subsp. ambigua 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 ambigua</i> Mayr <i>Pachycephala pectoralis ambigua</i> Mayr, 1932b: 16 (Rambi Island, Fiji Islands). Now <i>Pachycephala vitiensis ambigua</i> Mayr, 1932. See Galbraith, 1956: 198, Watling, 2001: 160– 161, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 252825</b>, adult male, collected on Rabi (<i>5</i> Rambi) Island, 16.30S, 179.59E (USBGN, 1974), Fiji, on 4 December 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 15872). COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range of the subspecies given as Rambi and Kio islands and Thakaundrove Peninsula of Vanua Levu Island. The Whitney Expedition visited the Thakaundrove Peninsula, 16.44S, 179.47W (USBGN, 1974), just across the strait from Kio Island, only on 8 December 1924 (Beck’s unpublished journal, vol. D, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH); and only those Vanua Levu specimens collected on that date are paratypes of <i>ambigua</i>. Paratypes are: Rambi, <b>AMNH 2 2 4 0 4 9</b>, <b>252753–252763</b>, <b>252815–252824</b>, <b>252826–252828</b>, and <b>252857</b>; Kio, <b>AMNH 252789–252795</b>; Thakaundrove Peninsula, <b>AMNH 252764–252766</b>, <b>252829</b>. I did not find AMNH 252754, 252817, and 252827 in the collection; they were perhaps exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked. Galbraith (1956: 198) and Watling (2001: 160–161) considered <i>ambigua</i> to be a synonym of <i>P. pectoralis aurantiiventris</i>; Dickinson (2003: 477) recognized <i>ambigua</i> and included it with the other Fijian forms in the species <i>P. vitiensis</i>; Boles (2007: 421) recognized <i>ambigua</i> in the species <i>P. pectoralis</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 37
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