Zosterops yalensis van Someren

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Zosterops yalensis van Someren

Zosterops yalensis van Someren, 1922: 191 (Kaimosi) .

Now Zosterops senegalensis jacksoni Neumann, 1899 . See Moreau, 1967: 330, Fry et al., 2000: 306–310, and van Balen, 2008: 470–471.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 699436 , adult male, collected at Kaimosi, 00.08N, 34.47E (Cha-

pin, 1954a: 671), Kenya, on 22 January 1917, by J. Allen Turner (no. 614) for Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren only said that the type, a male from Kaimosi collected by Allen Turner, was in the Rothschild Museum. Hartert (1928: 207) designated the above specimen the lectotype by citing the unique collecting date of 22 January 1917. It bears the original Meinertzhagen label, marked ‘‘Type’’ by van Someren, a Rothschild type label, and a Rothschild Collection label. The range of yalensis was given by van Someren (1922: 191) as Yala, Mumias, Nyarondo, and Kaimosi. Paralectotypes in AMNH, all collected by Turner, are: AMNH 699426–699428, one male and two females from Yala River; AMNH 699429, 699430, male and female from Lucosi Road; AMNH 699431, 699432, females from Kakamega Road; AMNH 699433, 699434, male and unsexed from Kabrass; AMNH 699435, 699437–699440, two males and three females from Kaimosi; AMNH 699441–699444, four females from Lerundo. There are also three paralectotypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 70).