Zosterops montana steini Mayr

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 : 13

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scientific name	Zosterops montana steini Mayr
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Zosterops montana steini Mayr, 1944: 169 (Mt. Ramelan [sic] (2600 meters), eastern Timor).

Now Zosterops montanus montanus Bonaparte, 1850 View in CoL . See Mees, 1957: 191–192, White and Bruce, 1986: 413, and Dickinson, 2003: 626.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 308005 View Materials , adult male, collected on Mount Ramelau (not Mount Ramelan), 2600 m, 08.55S, 125.25E (US- BGN, 1982a), eastern Timor, on 1 May 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 4290). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. The following specimens are paratypes: males, AMNH 346376–346384 View Materials , Mount Mutis, AMNH 346385–346390 View Materials , Mount Ramelau ; females, AMNH 346391–346397 View Materials , Mount Mutis , AMNH 346398–396403 View Materials , Mount Ramelau ; sex?, AMNH 346404–346406 View Materials , Mount Mutis , AMNH 346407 View Materials , 346408 View Materials , Mount Ramelau. Of these, AMNH 346376 View Materials , 346377 View Materials , 346389 View Materials , 346392–346394 View Materials , and 346405 were sent to ZMB in January 1956 ; I did not find AMNH 346379 in the collection. The locality is clearly written ‘‘ Mount Ramelau’ ’ on the holotype .

Fieldwork on Timor by Clara and Georg Stein, from ZMB, was supported by J. Sterling Rockefeller for AMNH, and the specimens were to be divided between the two institutions. The results were published by Mayr (1944) during World War II, and no specimens were returned to ZMB until January 1956. Stein never published fieldnotes from this expedition because his home and notebooks were destroyed during the war ( Stresemann, 1967).