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 splendida Hartert Zosterops splendida Hartert, 1929: 12 (Island of Ganonga, Solomon Islands ). Now Zosterops splendidus Hartert, 1929 . See Mees, 1961a: 146–147 , Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396–397 , Dickinson, 2003: 628 , and van Balen, 2008: 463 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 220020 , adult male, collected on Ganongga ( 5 Ganonga) Island , Solomon Islands , on 24 October 1927 , by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28852). COMMENTS: Hartert gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had examined four males and one female . Only part of the specimens collected on Ganongga was sent to Hartert for study and only those specimens comprise his type series. They are identifiable because someone in hand unknown has written on them in black ink ‘‘splendidus [sic] Hart.’’ The paratypes are: AMNH 220014 , male, 19 October 1927 ; AMNH 220023 , male, 25 October 1927 ; AMNH 220024 , male, 25 October 1927 ; AMNH 220025 , female, 22 October 1927 . On 24 October 1927 , the expedition vessel, France , was anchored at the Ganongga village of Kumbokota, now called Pienuna, 08.02S , 156.36E (USBGN, 1974b), and expedition personnel collected from there to Mount Kela, 08.03S , 156.34E (USBGN, 1974b), according to Hamlin’s Journal S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in the Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH. As noted above, splendidus is variously regarded as a full species or a subspecies of Zosterops luteirostris .