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
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Zosterops alberti
Rothschild and Hartert
Zosterops alberti
Rothschild and Hartert, 1908b: 364
(
San Cristobal
).
Now
Zosterops rendovae rendovae
Tristram, 1882
. See
Mees, 1961a: 157–162
,
Mayr, 1967: 313
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397
, and
van Balen, 2008: 464
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 700667
, adult male, collected on Anuta (
5
Yanuta) Island,
10.20S
,
161.21E
(
USBGN
, 1974b),
Makira
(
5
San Cristobal)
Island, Solomon Islands
, on
25 April 1908
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 4078).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert designated as the
holotype
the specimen bearing Meek’s unique number 4078. Their type series comprised
three males
and
three females
from Anuta and Makira, with Meek’s numbers listed.
Paratypes
, all collected in 1908, are: Makira, females,
AMNH 700665
(Meek no. 4124), 1
May
;
AMNH 700666
(4123), 1
May
;
Anuta, males,
AMNH 700668
(4086), 26
April
;
AMNH 700669
(4102) 27
April
;
female,
AMNH 700670
(4103), 27
April. The
entire island of
San Cristobal
is today called
Makira
, but there is a
Makira Harbor
in the northwest part of the island within which is the island of
Anuta. This
is undoubtedly where
Meek
anchored his boat
.
Mees (1961a: 157–162)
and
van Balen (2008: 464)
correctly used
Z. r. rendovae
for the
Makira
subspecies as it was shown that the original description of
rendovae
applied to the
Makira
bird.