Zosterops citrinella intercalata Stresemann

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 : 16

[ Zosterops citrinella intercalata Stresemann ]

Zosterops citrinella intercalata Stresemann, 1931a: 217 (Kambera in Mittel-Sumba).

Now Zosterops citrinellus citrinellus Bonaparte, 1850 . See Mayr, 1944: 168–169, and Dickinson, 2003: 627.

COMMENTS: When Zosterops citrinella intercalata was described by Stresemann (1931a: 217), he designated as the holotype ZMB ‘‘Nr. 30.161 4, male adult, Kambera in Mittel-Sumba, 21. März 1925, K.W. Dammerman leg. Nr. 71.’’ That specimen remains in ZMB. Stresemann (1931a: 202) had worked on Dammerman’s collection in the Rothschild Collection (as well as in other European collections) and apparently at some time had intended to designate as the type of intercalata the specimen that became AMNH 700175, a male collected at Waingapo, Sumba Island, on 14 September 1896 by Alfred Everett. In fact, he had written on the back of the Rothschild Collection label ‘‘Typus von intercalata Stres. 1930.’’ I find no evidence that Stresemann had introduced this name in 1930. There is a Rothschild type label tied on the specimen, filled in by an unknown hand, and it was cataloged as a type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. However, it has no standing as a type. Because the specimen bears a Rothschild type label, it remains in the type collection but with an added label to explain the situation. For the spelling of Z. citrinellus , see above.