Zosterops alberti hamlini Murphy

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 : 25-26

publication ID	0003-0090
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFA2-FFD7-FCFD-F904399BFBAF
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Zosterops alberti hamlini Murphy
status

Treatment

Zosterops alberti hamlini Murphy, 1929: 3 (Bougainville Island, Solomon Group).

Now Zosterops rendovae hamlini Murphy, 1929 . See Mees, 1961a: 164, Schodde, 1977: 87–88, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, Hadden, 2004: 218–219, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222098 View Materials , adult male, collected on Bougainville Island , North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, on 27 January 1928, by Frederick P. Drowne (no. 562)on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

COMMENTS: Murphy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he examined 14 males and seven females collected 31 December 1927 –29 (not 25) January 1928. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 222086–222097 View Materials , 222099 View Materials ; females, AMNH 222100–222106 View Materials . Of these, AMNH 222087 View Materials was exchanged to NRM in June 1929. The following were exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered when they returned to AMNH: AMNH 222089 View Materials (700677), AMNH 222091 View Materials (700678), AMNH 222095 View Materials (700676), and AMNH 222102 View Materials (700679) .

According to Drowne’s journal, volume Q, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the base camp in January 1928 was at Kupei, 06.15S, 155.25E ( PNG, 1984).