Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews

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

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475677
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scientific name	Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews
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Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews View in CoL

Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 3 View in CoL (Malo Island, New Hebrides Group).

Now Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 130–131, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 213604 View Materials , adult male, collected on Malo Island , 15.41S, 167.10E ( USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 27 August 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22378). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they had four specimens from Malo and three from Espiritu Santo. The paratypes are: Malo, males, AMNH 213603 View Materials , 213605 View Materials , female, AMNH 213613 View Materials ; Espiritu Santo, males, AMNH 214071 View Materials , 215882 View Materials (juvenile), 216153 .