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 aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant Zosterops aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant, 1895b: 40 (mountains of Lepanto in Northern Luzon). Now Zosterops nigrorum aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant, 1895 . See Mees, 1957: 166–168 , Dickinson et al., 1991: 399 , and van Balen, 2008: 450 . SYNTYPES : AMNH 700076 , adult male, 15 November 1894 , by John Whitehead (no. 649) ; AMNH 700077 , female, 21 February 1895 , by John Whitehead (no. A.185) ; AMNH 700078 , female, 21 November 1894 , by John Whitehead (no. 703), all collected at Barit , 17.19N , 120.42E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 415 ), Abra Prov. , northern Luzon Island , Philippines . From the Rothschild Collection . COMMENTS: In the brief original description, Ogilvie-Grant gave no indication of the sex or number of his specimens or exactly where they were obtained. In his somewhat more complete account, he ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1895a: 453 ) noted that he had both males, females, and ‘‘younger examples.’’ Ogilvie- Grant (1895a: 434) cited a letter in which Whitehead noted that he was leaving for the northern highlands at the beginning of November 1894 , and another letter (Ogilvie- Grant, 1895a: 435) dated 16 February 1895 , where Whitehead reported his intention of returning to the coast. The above three specimens were collected from within that period and are considered syntypes . They had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection and were not listed by Hartert in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection; nevertheless, their existence was mentioned by Mees (1957: 167) who gave no details. Other syntypes mentioned by Mees are in ZMB and in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 44 ). Benson (1999: 138) listed two syntypes in UMZC.