Zosterops schoana Neumann

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 : 43

Zosterops schoana Neumann

Zosterops schoana Neumann, 1903: 185 (Abuje, (Provinz Gindeberat) Schoa).

Now Zosterops poliogastrus kaffensis Neumann, 1903 . See Fry et al., 2000: 316–317, and van Balen, 2008: 473.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 699424 , adult female, collected at Abuye (5 Abuje), 09.44N, 37.46E ( USBGN, 1982b), Anato , Gindeberat Province , Schoa , Ethiopia, on 3 October 1900, by Oscar Neumann (no. 134). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as type a female collected at Abuye on 3 October 1900; however, his two specimens of schoana both bore the same data and he did not cite his field number. Neumann (1906: 242) later listed both of his specimens with their field numbers but did not indicate there which one was his type. Hartert (1920: 433), by citing Neumann’s specimen no. 134 as the type, thereby designated it the lectotype. It bears the original field label marked ‘‘Typus’’ by Neumann and Rothschild Collection and type labels. The paralectotype is AMNH 699423 (Neumann no. 135), female, collected at Abuye on 3 October 1900.