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 japonica insularis Ogawa Zosterops japonica insularis Ogawa, 1905: 186 (Tanegashima) . Now Zosterops japonicus insularis Ogawa, 1905 . See Mees, 1957: 108–112 , Dickinson, 2003: 625 , Morioka et al., 2005: 52 , and van Balen, 2008: 445–446 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 699774 , adult male, collected at Masuda , Tanegashima Island , 30.35N , 130.59E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 153 ), Japan , on 12 November 1904 , by collectors for Alan Owston (nos. 1330, 43). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Hartert (1920: 436) listed the specimen bearing the unique number 1330 as the type, thus designating it the lectotype , and Mees (1957: 110) confirmed Hartert’s designation. Ogawa (1905: 188–189) listed all of the specimens that he examined in the Owston collection, a total of 55; 40 of these came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and 39 are paralectotypes : Yakushima, AMNH 699747–699766 ; Tanegashima, AMNH 699767–699773 and 699775–699786 .