Zosterops abyssinica socotrana Neumann

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 40

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scientific name	Zosterops abyssinica socotrana Neumann
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Zosterops abyssinica socotrana Neumann, 1908: 59 (Dahamis, Sokotra) .

Now Zosterops abyssinicus socotranus Neumann, 1908 View in CoL . See Fry et al., 2000: 314–315, Kirwan, 2007: 141–142, and van Balen, 2008: 469–470.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699559 View Materials , adult male, collected at Dahamis , 350 ft, Socotra Island, 12.30N, 54.00E ( USBGN, 1976), Yemen, on 20 December 1898, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant and H.O. Forbes (no. 190). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann said that the type, in the Rothschild Collection, was a male collected at Dahamis on 20 December 1898. AMNH 699559 View Materials is the only Rothschild specimen in AMNH bearing those data. Three additional specimens are paratypes: AMNH 699558 View Materials (field no. 419), female, collected at Adho Diemellus, 3500 ft, on 10 February 1899 ; AMNH 699560 View Materials (193) female, collected at Dahamis, 350 ft, on 20 December 1898 ; AMNH 699561 View Materials (232) female, collected at Thlütied, 1200 ft, on 7 January 1899 .

Kirwan (2007: 141–142) discussed the various characters attributed to Z. a. socotranus by various authors and found it to be ‘‘only very doubtfully recognisable’’; van Balen recognized it.