Zosterops chlorates origenes Stresemann

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 : 14

Zosterops chlorates origenes Stresemann

Zosterops chlorates origenes Stresemann, 1938: 46 (Wawa-Karaeng, 2500 m).

Now Zosterops montanus montanus Bonaparte, 1850 . See Mees, 1957: 176–189, White and Bruce, 1986: 413, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 468609 , adult male, collected at Wawa Karaeng , 2500 m, Mount Lompobatang (5 Bonthain Peak), 05.20S, 119.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), southern Sulawesi (5 Celebes) Island, Indonesia, on 8 September 1931 by Gerd Heinrich (no. 5470).

COMMENTS: Stresemann cited Heinrich’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but gave no catalog number for it. Mees’ (1957: 184) publication of ZMB 34.249 0 as the number of this holotype was misleading. One of the tags on this specimen, printed with the ZMB name, bears both ZMB 34.249 0 and AMNH 468609 ; but on the type label which is also printed with the ZMB name, only the AMNH number appears. It was sent to AMNH in fulfillment of the funding agreement, as noted above. S. Frahnert (personal commun.) has confirmed that number 34.249 0 in the ZMB catalog was given to this specimen while it was being studied by Stresemann, and that it is indicated in the catalog as having been sent to AMNH. Stresemann (1938: 46) studied 19 specimens ; paratypes that came to AMNH are: AMNH 300294–300302 , four males and five females, Wawa Karaeng, 2500 m, Lompobatang, September 1931 ; AMNH 300303 , immature, Lombasanj, 1100 m, Lompobatang, August 1931, all collected by the Heinrich Expedition .