Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr

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Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr and Gilliard

Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 14 (Yandara, north slope of Mt. Wilhelm, Central Hightlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Mees, 1961a: 112–115, Coates, 1990: 330–332, and van Balen, 2008: 461.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348224, adult male, collected at Yandara, 6000 ft, on the north slope of Mount Wilhelm, 05.45S, 145.00E ( PNG, 1984), Bismarck Range, Simbu-Madang provincial border, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1950, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 707).

COMMENTS: This single specimen was collected by Shaw Mayer and was a gift to the 1950 Gilliard Expedition. Mees (1961a: 113–115) considered wahgiensis and shawmayeri synonyms and, as first revisor, select- ed wahgiensis as the valid name of the subspecies on the basis of line priority.

For information on Fred Shaw Mayer, see Peckover and George (1992).