Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Zosterops obstinatus
Hartert
Zosterops obstinatus
Hartert, 1900b: 238
(Batjan)
.
Now
Zosterops montanus obstinatus
Hartert, 1900
. See
Mees, 1957: 195–196
,
White and Bruce, 1986: 413
, and
van Balen, 2008: 450
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 700169
, adult female, collected on Bacan (
5
Batjan) Island,
4000 ft
,
00.35S
,
127.30E
(
White and Bruce, 1986: 490
),
Moluccas, Indonesia
, in
September 1897
, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert had
two specimens
from
Bacan
, but in the original description, he did not distinguish between them.
Hartert (1920: 434)
listed the female as the type, thereby designating it the
lectotype
;
the same specimen was considered the type by
Mees (1957: 196)
. In addition to the specimens from Bacan, Hartert had the
three specimens
from
Ternate
that were later described as
ternatanus
(see above).
Although
unsure whether the
Ternate
specimens were exactly the same as those from
Bacan
, he did include
them in
obstinatus
.
Paralectotypes
of
obstinatus
:
AMNH
700160
, male, Bacan,
September 1897
;
AMNH 700170, AMNH 700171, AMNH 700172
, females,
Ternate
,
September 1896
.