Acmonorhynchus affinis Zimmer, 1918

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 108

Acmonorhynchus affinis Zimmer

Acmonorhynchus affinis J.T. Zimmer, 1918b: 348 (Brooke’s Point, Palawan, P.I.).

Now Dicaeum agile affine (Zimmer, 1918) . See Sheldon, 1985, Dickinson, 1991: 388–389, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 370–371.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 296436, male, and AMNH 296437, female, collected at Brooke’s Point, 08.47N, 117.50E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 416), Palawan Island, Philippines, on 14 and 31 March 1916, respectively, by John Todd Zimmer (nos. 1446 and 1499, respectively).

COMMENTS: In the original description, the above specimens, the only two seen, were designated as syntypes. Salomonsen (1960b: 15), who included this subspecies in the species D. aeruginosum , incorrectly noted that ‘‘Two specimens, one being the type, in the American Museum of Natural History have been examined.’’ Sheldon (1985), in his broad study of the thick-billed flowerpecker complex, combined D. aeruginosum with D. agile , and this has been followed by most recent authors.