Zosterops alberti Rothschild and 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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0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475661

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scientific name

Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert
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Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert

Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert, 1908b: 364 ( San Cristobal).

Now Zosterops rendovae rendovae Tristram, 1882 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 157–162, Mayr, 1967: 313, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700667 View Materials , adult male, collected on Anuta (5 Yanuta) Island, 10.20S, 161.21E ( USBGN, 1974b), Makira (5 San Cristobal) Island, Solomon Islands, on 25 April 1908, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4078). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert designated as the holotype the specimen bearing Meek’s unique number 4078. Their type series comprised three males and three females from Anuta and Makira, with Meek’s numbers listed. Paratypes, all collected in 1908, are: Makira, females, AMNH 700665 View Materials (Meek no. 4124), 1 May ; AMNH 700666 View Materials (4123), 1 May ; Anuta, males, AMNH 700668 View Materials (4086), 26 April ; AMNH 700669 View Materials (4102) 27 April ; female, AMNH 700670 View Materials (4103), 27 April. The entire island of San Cristobal is today called Makira , but there is a Makira Harbor in the northwest part of the island within which is the island of Anuta. This is undoubtedly where Meek anchored his boat .

Mees (1961a: 157–162) and van Balen (2008: 464) correctly used Z. r. rendovae for the Makira subspecies as it was shown that the original description of rendovae applied to the Makira bird.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

Loc

Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Zosterops rendovae rendovae Tristram, 1882

van Balen, S. 2008: 464
Mayr, E. & J. M. Diamond 2001: 397
Mayr, E. 1967: 313
Mees, G. F. 1961: 157
1961
Loc

Zosterops alberti

Rothschild, W. & E. Hartert 1908: 364
1908
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