Aplonis tabuensis subsp. tutuilae Mayr 1942

Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr, 1942: 2 (Tutuila Island, Samoa). Now Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr, 1942. See Amadon, 1962a: 78; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 206364, adult male, collected on Tutuila Island, 14.20S, 170.40W, American Samoa, on 16 April 1924, by Jose Correia and Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12309). COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Tutuila Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 201358–201363, 202250– 202252, 206353–206363, 206365–206372, 224287, 20 males, 9 females, 22 October–30 November 1923, 19 January–14 February 1924, 16 April 1924. AMNH 206358 and 206363 were exchanged with DMNH and are now DMNH 18276 and 18275, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.).Published as part of 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, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 32, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995