Zosterops obstinatus ternatanus 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 : 11

Zosterops obstinatus ternatanus Stresemann

Zosterops obstinatus ternatanus Stresemann, 1914a: 139 ( Ternate, 3000–4000 f.).

Now Zosterops montanus obstinatus Hartert, 1900 . See Mees, 1957: 196–197, White and Bruce, 1986: 413, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700170 , adult female, collected on Ternate Island, 3000–4000 ft, 00.48N, 127.20E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann listed as type a female collected on Ternate between the altitudes of 3000 and 4000 ft, in September 1896, and noted that he had three female specimens. The specimen that is now AMNH 700170 is the only one collected between 3000 and 4000 ft and is the holotype ; it also bears a Rothschild type label in addition to Doherty’s original label and was listed as the type by Mees (1957: 197). The reverse of Doherty’s label was originally annotated ‘‘ Type of ternatensis!,’’ but this has been marked through, as that name was never introduced. The two paratypes are: AMNH 700171 and AMNH 700172 , females, collected on Ternate at 3000 ft in September 1896 by Doherty. The three birds that comprise this type series are also paralectotypes of Z. obstinatus (see below) .