Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-04-29 2011 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 Zosterops massaica van Someren Zosterops massaica van Someren, 1922: 192 (Sagala) . Now Zosterops abyssinicus flavilateralis Reichenow, 1892 . See Moreau, 1967: 328 , Fry et al., 2000: 314–315 , and van Balen, 2008: 469–470 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 699291 , adult male, collected at Sagala , 03.31S , 38.35E ( Polhill, 1988 ), Teita , Kenya , on 8 August 1918 . From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as the type a male in the Rothschild Collection collected at Sagala on 8 August 1918 . AMNH 699291 is the only Rothschild specimen bearing those data. There are three paratypes at AMNH, all females from Sagala: AMNH 699292– 699294 .