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 montana steini
Mayr
Zosterops montana steini
Mayr, 1944: 169
(Mt. Ramelan [sic] (2600 meters), eastern Timor).
Now
Zosterops montanus montanus
Bonaparte, 1850
. See
Mees, 1957: 191–192
,
White and Bruce, 1986: 413
, and
Dickinson, 2003: 626
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 308005
, adult male, collected on
Mount Ramelau
(not
Mount Ramelan
),
2600 m
,
08.55S
,
125.25E
(US-
BGN
, 1982a),
eastern Timor
, on
1 May 1932
, by Georg Stein (no. 4290).
COMMENTS:
Mayr
cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description.
The
following specimens are
paratypes
: males,
AMNH 346376–346384
,
Mount Mutis
,
AMNH 346385–346390
,
Mount Ramelau
;
females,
AMNH 346391–346397
,
Mount Mutis
,
AMNH 346398–396403
,
Mount Ramelau
;
sex?,
AMNH 346404–346406
,
Mount Mutis
,
AMNH 346407
,
346408
,
Mount Ramelau. Of
these,
AMNH 346376
,
346377
,
346389
,
346392–346394
, and 346405 were sent to
ZMB
in
January 1956
;
I did not find
AMNH
346379 in
the collection.
The
locality is clearly written ‘‘
Mount Ramelau’
’ on the
holotype
.
Fieldwork on Timor by Clara and Georg Stein, from ZMB, was supported by J. Sterling Rockefeller for AMNH, and the specimens were to be divided between the two institutions. The results were published by
Mayr (1944)
during World War II, and no specimens were returned to ZMB until
January 1956
. Stein never published fieldnotes from this expedition because his home and notebooks were destroyed during the war (
Stresemann, 1967
).