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 lateralis tropica Mees Zosterops lateralis tropica Mees, 1969: 100 (Espiritu Santo) . Now Zosterops lateralis tropicus Mees, 1969 . See Mees, 1969: 100–102 , Bregulla, 1992: 252 , Dickinson, 2003: 629 , and van Balen, 2008: 467–468 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 214054 , adult male, collected on Espiritu Santo Island , 15.15S , 166.50E ( USBGN , 1974), Vanuatu , on 1 September 1926 , by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22507). COMMENTS: Mees gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range of tropica as ‘‘the northern New Hebrides : Malo , Espiritu Santo , Tongoa (off Espiritu Santo , not to be confused with Tongoa near Epi ) ; Banks Group : Gaua , Melapav , Ureparapara or Blight (sic) ; Torres Group : Low Island , Toga. ’’ Specimens other than the holotype that Mees examined from those islands are paratypes of tropica . Mees visited AMNH when working on this part of his Zosteropidae monograph and would have seen all of the specimens in the AMNH collection. Paratypes in AMNH are: Malo , males, AMNH 213597 , 213598 ; Espiritu Santo , males, AMNH 214050–214053 , female, AMNH 214065 , juvenile sex?, AMNH 215883 ; Gaua , male, AMNH 214056 ; Melapav , female, AMNH 214064 ; Bligh , male, AMNH 216128 ; Low , males, AMNH 216115– 216118 , 216120 , females, AMNH 216121 , 216122 , 216124 , 216125 ; Toga , male, AMNH 216126 , female, AMNH 216127 . AMNH 216119 and AMNH 216123 had already been exchanged to NRM and CM , respectively, and would not have been seen at AMNH by Mees. AMNH 216116 had been exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered AMNH 459013 when that collection came to AMNH in 1932 ; it would have been part of Mees’ type series. Bregulla (1992: 252) listed Tanna and Aniwa birds as Z. l. tropicus without comment. The holotype of this taxon had not previously been included in the type collection at AMNH.