Zosterops lutea headlandi 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 : 21

Zosterops lutea headlandi Mathews

Zosterops lutea headlandi Mathews, 1923b: 36 (Point Headland [sic], North Mid-west Australia).

Now Zosterops luteus balstoni Ogilvie-Grant, 1909 . See Mees, 1961a: 125–131, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 685–686, and van Balen, 2008: 462.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700479 , unsexed, collected at Port Hedland (not Headland), 20.19S, 118.34E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, in October 1907. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2839) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave only the type locality of Point Hedland and mentioned no additional range or his catalog number of the type. AMNH 700479 bears a Rothschild Collection label, a Mathews Collection label, marked ‘‘Type of headlandi’’ by Mathews, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 506, bottom right fig., opp. p. 156, text p. 165), where the specimen bearing only the month and year, October 1907, is said to be the type of headlandi, thereby designating it the lectotype. Mathews had two additional specimens from Port Hedland , paralectotypes: AMNH 700477 , female, collected 7 October 1914 and AMNH 700478 , female, collected 27 October 1914. Both of these, collected by F.L. Whitlock, were originally in the H.L. White Collection, and were probably acquired from White during Mathews’ 1914 visit to Australia ; they were not cataloged by Mathews.