Zosterops flavifrons majuscula Murphy and 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

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475681
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scientific name	Zosterops flavifrons majuscula Murphy and Mathews
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Zosterops flavifrons majuscula Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 5 (Aneiteum Island, New Hebrides Group).

Now Zosterops flavifrons majusculus Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 135–136, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212612 View Materials , adult male, collected on Aneityum (5 Aneiteum) Island, 20.12S, 169.49E ( USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 10 June 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 20918). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they had two specimens from Aneityum. The paratype is AMNH 212613, female.