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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Myzomela chloroptera charlottae
Stresemann
Myzomela chloroptera charlottae
Stresemann, 1932a: 45
(Latimodjong-Gebirge
2200m
.).
Now
Myzomela boiei chloroptera
Walden, 1872
. See
White and Bruce, 1986: 402
,
Coates et al., 1997: 479–480
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 333– 334
,
Dickinson, 2003: 442
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 641–642
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 300043
, adult male, collected in the Latimojong (
5
Latimodjong) Mountains,
2200 m
,
03.30S
,
120.05E
(
USBGN
, 1982a),
Sulawesi
Island
,
Indonesia
, on
18 June 1930
, by
Gerd Heinrich
(no. 454).
COMMENTS: Stresemann gave Heinrich’s field number of the
holotype
in the original description and included in the range of
charlottae
three male
specimens from the
Matinan Mountains
as well as those from the
Latimojong Mountains
.
Stresemann (1940: 45)
listed his material as
nine males
and
one female
from the
Latimojong Mountains
and
two males
from Tanke Salokko.
Paratypes
in
AMNH
are:
Latimojong Mountains
, males,
AMNH 300044–300048
;
Tanke Salokko
, males,
AMNH 300051
,
300052
.
Collecting
by
Heinrich
was jointly supported by
L.C. Sanford
for
AMNH
and
ZMB
and the collection was divided between the two institutions, with types coming to
AMNH
and a subset sent to
MZB
.
The
remaining
paratypes
are probably in
ZMB
or
MZB
.
See
Schodde and Mason (1999: 334)
for a discussion of the various treatments of the Wallacean forms often considered subspecies of the species
M. sanguinolenta
.
Higgins et al. (2008: 641)
considered
M. chloroptera
a separate species and
charlottae
a synonym of nominate
chloroptera
.