Zosterops rennelliana 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 : 22-23

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475653
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treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Zosterops rennelliana Murphy
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Treatment

Zosterops rennelliana Murphy, 1929: 10 (Rennell Island, Solomon Group).

Now Zosterops rennellianus Murphy, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 142–143, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 463.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222138 View Materials , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 28 April 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35299).

COMMENTS: Murphy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that six males and two females were collected 27–30 August 1928. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 222136 View Materials , 222137 View Materials , 222139–222141 View Materials ; females, AMNH 222142 View Materials , 222143 View Materials . AMNH 222141 View Materials had been exchanged to Rothschild and when his collection came to AMNH in 1932, it was renumbered 700711. Other Rennell specimens were collected after the publication date of the name .

During the Whitney Expedition’s stay on Rennell in 1928, its vessel, France, was anchored in Lughu (5 Kungava or Kunggava) Bay ( Mayr and Hamlin, 1931: 3), 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974b).