Zosterops alberti oblita Hartert

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 : 25

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scientific name	Zosterops alberti oblita Hartert
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Zosterops alberti oblita Hartert, 1929: 10 (Guadalcanar) .

Now Zosterops rendovae oblitus Hartert, 1929 . See Mees, 1961a: 162–164, Mayr, 1967: 313, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218110 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (5 Guadalcanar) Island, Solomon Islands, on 30 May 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26467).

COMMENTS: Hartert gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and examined two males and three females from Guadalcanal. The paratypes are: AMNH 218114 About AMNH , female, 31 May 1927 ; AMNH 218115 About AMNH , female, 2 July 1927 ; AMNH 220101 About AMNH , male, 22 July 1927 ; AMNH 220103 About AMNH , female, 22 July 1927. The specimens that Hartert examined are labeled in ink ‘‘alberti oblita Hart.’’ The other specimens collected by the Whitney Expedition on Guadalcanal are not paratypes. Among the paratypes, AMNH 220101 About AMNH and 220103 were exchanged to Rothschild and when they returned to AMNH they were renumbered AMNH 700672 About AMNH and 700675, respectively .

According to Beck’s Journal D, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored on 30 May 1927 in Doma Cove, now called Ndoma Cove, 09.19S, 159.48E (USBGN, 1974b) and its staff collected from there up to about 3500 ft in the hills.