Zosterops murphyi Hartert, 1929

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 : 24-25

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Zosterops murphyi Hartert View in CoL

Zosterops murphyi Hartert, 1929: 11 (Kulambangra) View in CoL .

Now Zosterops murphyi Hartert, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 151–152, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220087 View Materials , adult male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulamban-

gra) Island, Solomon Islands, on 13 October 1927, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28564).

COMMENTS: Hartert gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and examined three males and two females collected on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. The four paratypes from Hartert’s type series, labeled in ink as ‘‘ murphyi Hart. ,’’ are: AMNH 220082 View Materials , male, 12 October 1927 ; AMNH 220085 View Materials , male, 12 October 1927 ; AMNH 220090 View Materials , female, 11 October 1927, AMNH 220091 View Materials , female, 11 October 1927. Of these, AMNH 220082 View Materials was exchanged to Rothschild and when it returned to AMNH, was renumbered AMNH 700764 View Materials . Other specimens of Z. murphyi collected by the Whitney Expedition are not paratypes .

According to Hamlin’s journal volume S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition , Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored on 13 October 1927 in what was then known as Ariel Cove ; it is now called Meresu Cove, 08.02S, 156.57E ( USBGN, 1974b). Joe Hicks was a member of the crew of the France GoogleMaps .