Zosterops flavifrons perplexa Murphy and Mathews

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Zosterops flavifrons perplexa Murphy and Mathews

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

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212600 , 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 , 216161 , 218134–218138 , 218142 , 218143 ; Pentacost Island , AMNH 216157 , 216158 ; Meralav Island , AMNH 214073 ; Aurora Island , AMNH 218139– 218141 ; Ambrym Island , AMNH 212599 , 212614 ; Pauuma Island , AMNH 212606 , 212625 ; Lopevi Island , AMNH 212607 ; Epi Island , AMNH 212608 , 212626 , 212627 , 216150 , 216151 , 218132 ; Tongoa Island , AMNH 212609 , 212610 , 212620 ; Tongariki Island , AMNH 222156 ; Mai Island , AMNH 212601–212604 , 212621–212624 ; Vanua Lava Island , AMNH 216140–216148 , 216154 . Of these, AMNH 218135 was exchanged to ZMB ; AMNH 218143 was exchanged to ANSP ; AMNH 212624 was exchanged to NRM ; AMNH 216143 was exchanged to CM ; and AMNH 216146 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According to Beck’s journal Volume D, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in Craig Cove, 16.16S,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.