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 samoensis Murphy and Mathews Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 11 (Savaii Island, Samoa ). Now Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929 . See Mees, 1969: 141–142 , Watling, 2001: 165–166 , and van Balen, 2008: 465 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 206312 , adult female, collected on Savai’i Island , Western Samoa , on 23 May 1924 , by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12729). COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they examined 24 specimens collected on Savai’i on 19 and 23 May 1924 . The paratypes are: AMNH 206301–206311 , 206313–206321 , 206423 , 222154 , 222155 . Of these, AMNH 206317 was exchanged to ZMB ; AMNH 206319 was exchanged to NRM ; and AMNH 206320 and 222154 were exchanged to ANSP . Four specimens were exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered when they returned to AMNH : AMNH 206303 (700785) ; AMNH 206309 (700787) ; AMNH 206313 (700786) ; and AMNH 206321 (700788) . According to Beck’s journal volume F, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France , was anchored at Salailua Bay, 13.39S , 172.33W (Times Atlas), on 23 May 1924 . For a study of genetic and phenotypic divergence within and among populations of Zosterops flavifrons in Vanuatu , see Phillimore et al. (2008) .