NUKU HIVA MONARCH Pomarea nukuhivae Pomarea mendozae nukuhivae Murphy & Mathews, 1928 MZUT AV2953; previously mounted; adult female; Tahiti (sic); from a Mr Colombi, in 1846. Remarks.—Originally labelled as Tahiti Monarch P. nigra, MZUT AV2953 is undoubtedly a female P. m. nukuhivae (A. Cibois pers. comm.). See below for another specimen labelled as P. nigra. In MZUT there are 125 specimens from ‘Colombi’, mostly received in 1845–46; the labels of some indicate that Colombi was from Brest (Brittany, France), but we know nothing more about him.

Published as part of Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (' E & E') birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, pp. 28-45 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 139 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11637476