Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
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2011
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Zosterops kaffensis
Neumann
Zosterops kaffensis
Neumann, 1902a: 10
(Kaffa)
.
Now
Zosterops poliogastrus kaffensis
Neumann, 1902
. See
Fry et al., 2000: 316–317
, and
van Balen, 2008: 473
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 699419
, adult male, collected at
Anderacha
(
5
Anderatscha, as on label),
07.11N
,
36.17E
(Times Atlas),
Kaffa
,
Ethiopia
, on
11 March 1901
, by
Oscar Neumann
(no. 994).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as type his specimen collected at Anderacha on
11 March 1901
, adding that he had a number of examples from Kaffa.
Neumann (1906: 243)
confirmed that the type was his specimen no. 994, the only one collected on
11 March 1901
, and listed
six specimens
that comprised his type series. Four
paratypes
came to
AMNH
with the Rothschild Collection: Anderacha,
AMNH 699418
(no Neumann number), male,
March–April 1901
;
AMNH 699420
(1003), male,
16 March 1901
;
AMNH 699421
(no Neumann number), female,
March–April 1901
;
Buka-wori,
AMNH 699422
(973), male,
4 March 1901
. The remaining
paratype
is Neumann’s no. 1002, male, Anderacha,
16 March 1901
.