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 flavifrons gauensis Murphy and Mathews Zosterops flavifrons gauensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 5 (Gaua Island, in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides ). Now Zosterops flavifrons gauensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929 . See Mees, 1969: 129–130 , Bregulla, 1992: 250–251 , and van Balen, 2008: 465 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 216131 , adult male, collected on Gaua Island , 14.17S , 167.30E ( USBGN , 1974c), Banks Islands , Vanuatu , on 22 November 1926 , by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 23973). COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype and said that they had 11 specimens . The ten paratypes are: AMNH 216129 , 216130 , 216132– 216139 .