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 eichhorni
Hartert
Zosterops eichhorni
Hartert, 1926a: 48
(Nissan Island).
Now
Zosterops griseotinctus eichhorni
Hartert, 1926
. See
Mees, 1961a: 139–142
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396
,
Hadden, 2004: 219–220
, and
van Balen, 2008: 462–463
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 700705
, adult male, collected on
Nissan Island
,
04.25S
,
154.10E
,
Bougainville Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
16 August 1924
, by
Albert F. Eichhorn
(no. 9577).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert cited Eichhorn’s unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description and noted (
Hartert, 1926a: 46
) that he collected
eight specimens
, all in 1924. Only seven of these specimens came to
AMNH
;
the
six paratypes
are: male,
AMNH 700704
(Eichhorn no. 9472), 29 July
;
females,
AMNH 700706
(9539), 11 August
;
AMNH 700707
(9467), 29 July
;
AMNH 700708
(9591), 20 August
;
AMNH 700709
(9578), 16 August
;
AMNH 700710
(9463), 28 July
.