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 rennelliana Murphy Zosterops rennelliana Murphy, 1929: 10 (Rennell Island, Solomon Group). Now Zosterops rennellianus Murphy, 1929 . See Mees, 1961a: 142–143 , Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397 , and van Balen, 2008: 463 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 222138 , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands , on 28 April 1928 , by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35299). COMMENTS: Murphy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that six males and two females were collected 27–30 August 1928 . Paratypes are: males, AMNH 222136 , 222137 , 222139–222141 ; females, AMNH 222142 , 222143 . AMNH 222141 had been exchanged to Rothschild and when his collection came to AMNH in 1932, it was renumbered 700711. Other Rennell specimens were collected after the publication date of the name . During the Whitney Expedition’s stay on Rennell in 1928, its vessel, France , was anchored in Lughu ( 5 Kungava or Kunggava) Bay ( Mayr and Hamlin, 1931: 3 ), 11.40S , 160.17E (USBGN, 1974b).