Zosterops gouldi warreni Mathews

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 : 28

Zosterops gouldi warreni Mathews

Zosterops gouldi warreni Mathews, 1916a: 62 (Warren River, South-west Australia).

Now Zosterops lateralis chloronotus Gould, 1841 . See Mees, 1969: 12–29, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 687–691, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700844 , adult male, collected on the Warren River , 34.36S, 115.50E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 514), Western Australia, Australia, on 12 February 1910, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6111) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from the Warren River. Carter’s original label for the above specimen was labeled ‘‘warreni Type’’ by Mathews and his catalog number was written on the label, although this was not given in the description. Mees (1969: 20) listed AMNH 700844 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Mathews had a second specimen, paralectotype AMNH 700845, female, collected on the Warren River on 13 February 1910 by Carter. I did not find it listed in Mathews’ catalog, but by the time warreni was published on 7 April 1916, Mathews’ (1942: 54) collection was complete.

Even though listed as the type by Mees, the lectotype had not been included in the AMNH type collection ; it now bears an AMNH type label and is housed with the types.