Zosterops fuscicapilla crookshanki Mayr and

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Zosterops fuscicapilla crookshanki Mayr and Rand

Zosterops fuscicapilla crookshanki Mayr and Rand, 1935: 16 (Goodenough Island, D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago).

Now Zosterops fuscicapilla crookshanki Mayr and Rand, 1935 . See Mees, 1961a: 100–101, Coates, 1990: 329–330, and van Balen, 2008: 458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222112, adult female (not male), collected on Goodenough Island, D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 20 No- vember 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 36032).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. As noted by Mees (1961a: 101), due to a typographical error, the holotype was incorrectly listed as a male. The type series comprised two female specimens. The paratype is AMNH 222113 (Whitney no. 36028), female, collected on the same day.

During Hamlin’s stay on Goodenough Island, the expedition ship France was anchored in Mud Bay, 09.25S, 150.20E ( PNG, 1984). From 19–23 November 1930, Hamlin and collector, David, camped at 1900 ft, apparently at the same site used by the Eichhorn brothers when they collected for Rothschild four or five years previously. The Eichhorns had not collected this form. Crookshank was Captain of the France. (Hamlin, unpublished journal, Whitney South Sea Expedition, volume T, Department of Ornithology Archives, AMNH).