Zosterops flavifrons perplexa 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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scientific name	Zosterops flavifrons perplexa Murphy and Mathews
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Treatment

Zosterops flavifrons perplexa Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 3 (Ambrym Island, New Hebrides Group).

Now Zosterops flavifrons perplexus Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 128–129, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212600 View Materials , adult male, collected on Ambrym Island , Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 14 August 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22057).

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed 12 islands and dates for which they had specimens: Paratypes are: Aoba Island , AMNH 216160 View Materials , 216161 View Materials , 218134–218138 View Materials , 218142 View Materials , 218143 View Materials ; Pentacost Island , AMNH 216157 View Materials , 216158 View Materials ; Meralav Island , AMNH 214073 View Materials ; Aurora Island , AMNH 218139– 218141 View Materials ; Ambrym Island , AMNH 212599 View Materials , 212614 View Materials ; Pauuma Island , AMNH 212606 View Materials , 212625 View Materials ; Lopevi Island , AMNH 212607 View Materials ; Epi Island , AMNH 212608 View Materials , 212626 View Materials , 212627 View Materials , 216150 View Materials , 216151 View Materials , 218132 View Materials ; Tongoa Island , AMNH 212609 View Materials , 212610 View Materials , 212620 View Materials ; Tongariki Island , AMNH 222156 View Materials ; Mai Island , AMNH 212601–212604 View Materials , 212621–212624 View Materials ; Vanua Lava Island , AMNH 216140–216148 View Materials , 216154 View Materials . Of these, AMNH 218135 View Materials was exchanged to ZMB ; AMNH 218143 View Materials was exchanged to ANSP ; AMNH 212624 View Materials was exchanged to NRM ; AMNH 216143 View Materials was exchanged to CM ; and AMNH 216146 View Materials was exchanged to

ANSP. The following were exchanged to Rothschild and were renumbered when they returned to AMNH: AMNH 218139 (700773), AMNH 212603 (700772), AMNH 216145 (700774).

According to Beck’s journal Volume D, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in Craig Cove, 16.16S, 167.55E (USBGN, 1974c) when this holotype was collected on 14 August 1926.

References

Abbreviations

AMNH	American Museum of Natural History
ZMB	Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)
ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
NRM	Swedish Museum of Natural History - Zoological Collections
CM	Chongqing Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Zosteropidae
Genus	Zosterops