Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
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2011
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Zosterops whiteheadi
Hartert
Zosterops whiteheadi
Hartert, 1903c: 14
(Lepanto, Luzon,
5000 feet
high).
Now
Zosterops montanus whiteheadi
Hartert, 1903
. See
Mees, 1957: 193–194
,
Dickinson et al., 1991: 401
, and
van Balen, 2008: 450
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 700139
, adult male, collected at Bagnen (
5
Bagnin
, as on label),
5000 ft
,
17.02N
,
120.53E
(
E.C. Dickinson
, personal commun.), Lepanto,
northern Luzon Island
,
Philippines
, on
14 December 1894
, by John Whitehead (no. 819). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Whitehead’s unique field number of the
holotype
and said that he had a male and a female specimen. The
paratype
is
AMNH 700140
, female, collected at Bagnen on
20 December 1894
by John Whitehead (no. 883).
‘‘Bagnin’’ is shown on the map in
Whitehead (1899: 83)
. Between
3 November 1894
and
14 January 1895
, Whitehead had stayed for some weeks at Bucay on the
Abra
River. Then, ill with dysentery, he ascended to an Igorrati village (name not mentioned), where he was based for several weeks (
Whitehead, 1899: 84
). Bagnen was perhaps the higher altitude Igorrati village.