Zosterops obstinatus Hartert

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Zosterops obstinatus Hartert

Zosterops obstinatus Hartert, 1900b: 238 (Batjan) .

Now Zosterops montanus obstinatus Hartert, 1900 . See Mees, 1957: 195–196, White and Bruce, 1986: 413, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700169 , adult female, collected on Bacan (5 Batjan) Island, 4000 ft, 00.35S, 127.30E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1897, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert had two specimens from Bacan , but in the original description, he did not distinguish between them. Hartert (1920: 434) listed the female as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype ; the same specimen was considered the type by Mees (1957: 196). In addition to the specimens from Bacan, Hartert had the three specimens from Ternate that were later described as ternatanus (see above). Although unsure whether the Ternate specimens were exactly the same as those from Bacan, he did include

them in obstinatus . Paralectotypes of obstinatus: AMNH 700160, male, Bacan, September 1897; AMNH 700170, AMNH 700171, AMNH 700172, females, Ternate, September 1896.