Zosterops flavifrons efatensis Mayr, 1937

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 : 27-28

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Zosterops flavifrons efatensis Mayr View in CoL

Zosterops flavifrons efatensis Mayr, 1937: 2 View in CoL (Efate Island, New Hebrides).

Now Zosterops flavifrons efatensis Mayr, 1937 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 132–134, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212597 View Materials , adult male, collected on Efate Island , Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 4 June 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21040).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and published measurements for nine specimens ; however, there were 10 specimens available to him. The nine paratypes of Z. f. efatensis are: Efate, AMNH 212596 View Materials , 212598 View Materials , 212615–212619 View Materials , three males and four females, June and July 1926, AMNH 216156 View Materials , male, 20 December 1926 .; Nguna, male, AMNH 212611 View Materials , July 1926 .

Earlier, Murphy and Mathews (1929: 1–2), having no material from Tanna Island, had relied on Sharpe’s (1900: 346) statement that Tanna and Efate birds did not differ and had identified the Efate birds as Z. f. flavifrons . They ( Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 2) noted that 10 specimens from Efate and one from Nguna had been collected. Of these 11 specimens, AMNH 216155, a male from Efate, was exchanged to NRM in June 1929 and was not available to Mayr for his description of this form. AMNH 216156 was exhanged to Rothschild and returned to AMNH in 1932 with the Rothschild Collection, when it was renumbered AMNH 700770; it was available to Mayr.

According to Beck’s journal D, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, Beck was staying in Port- Vila, 17.44S, 168.19E (USBGN, 1974c) when this holotype was collected.