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 Chlorocharis emiliae Sharpe Chlorocharis emiliae Sharpe, 1888a: 392 (Kina Balu, Northern Borneo). Now Chlorocharis emiliae emiliae Sharpe, 1888 . See Mees, 1969: 212–217 , Smythies, 2000: 597– 598 , and van Balen, 2008: 483–484 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 701481 , female, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 8000 ft , 06.03N , 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah , Malaysia , on 27 February 1888 , by John Whitehead (no. 2077). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe did not designate a type but had two specimens for which he listed Whitehead’s numbers 2077 and 2079. Hartert (1920: 437) listed as the type of emiliae Whitehead’s specimen no. 2077, thereby designating it the lectotype ; it bears a Rothschild type label. Whitehead’s label on this specimen was marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ by Sharpe. This is one of the cases where Whitehead sent ahead to Sharpe ‘‘a pair of most birds I thought would be new’’ ( Whitehead, 1893: 185 ). Because Sharpe described both male and female, no. 2079 must be a male, but no other information was given; specimen 2079 did not come to AMNH. When Sharpe (1889: 63) published his account of the birds of northern Borneo collected by Whitehead on all of his trips there, he listed four specimens of emiliae , all collected 28 January–1 March 1888 and labeled a–d. Because Sharpe did not list Whitehead’s numbers, matching these specimens with the seven now in AMNH is not possible ; some of the dates match and some do not. However, only the two specimens listed in the original description comprise the type series of emiliae , and number 2079, if found, would be the paralectotype . The genus Chlorocharis was described by Sharpe (1888a: 392 , pl. XI, fig. 1) at this time, with the type species Chlorocharis emiliae .