Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews

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Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews

Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews, 1912a: 385 (Tasmania) .

Now Zosterops lateralis lateralis (Latham, 1801) . See Mees, 1969: 30–70, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 687–691, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 701090 , adult male, collected at Devonport , 41.10S, 146.21E ( USBGN, 1957), Tasmania, Australia, on 12 February 1909, by T[homas] C[arter]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2840) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of tasmanica as ‘‘ Tasmania.’’ AMNH 701090 bears, in addition to the field label, a Mathews type label with his catalog number, and a Rothschild type label; a description of it was included in Mathews (1923a: 138), where it was confirmed as the type of tasmanica. It was also listed by Mees (1969: 60) as the type of tasmanica. Four additional Mathews Collection specimens from Tasmania came to AMNH, but label data are minimal and I was unable to determine when Mathews received them. I do not consider them paratypes. Another specimen was collected on Mount Arthur, Tasmania, on 3 December 1912, after the publication of tasmanica.

The collecting locality of the holotype was miscopied onto the Rothschild label as ‘‘Davenport.’’ For use of 180l as the date of Latham’s Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici see Schodde et al. (2010).