Zosterops clara Sharpe

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 : 9-10

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Zosterops clara Sharpe
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Zosterops clara Sharpe

Zosterops clara Sharpe, 1888b: 479 (Kina Balu).

Now Zosterops atricapilla atricapilla Salvadori, 1879 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1920: 435, Mees, 1957: 138– 141, Smythies, 2000: 594–595, and van Balen, 2008: 449.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700055 View Materials , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 4000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 9 March 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2179). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Sharpe neither designated a type in the original description nor indicated the size of his type series. Later, he ( Sharpe, 1889: 427) listed four specimens, three of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 435), by listing the specimen bearing Whitehead’s unique field no. 2179 as the type, designated it the lectotype. The Whitehead label of this specimen is marked ‘‘Type R.B.S[harpe]’’ and is his specimen ‘‘a’’ (although this letter does not appear on the label), which was originally dated ‘‘1887,’’ with the ‘‘7’’ overwritten by an ‘‘8.’’

In Sharpe (1889: 427) all of the specimens of clara are listed as being from the 1888 expedition. This is correct, as Whitehead (in Sharpe, 1889: 428) reported that he met with this form at only one locality on Kinabalu at about 5000 ft [4000 ft on all of his labels], on his 1888 second ascent of Kinabalu. On his 1887 trip he only collected what is now Zosterops everetti tahanensis , the lower altitude Zosterops , reported by Sharpe (1887: 452) as inseparable from Z. auriventer and later named Zosterops aureiventer [sic] parvus Hachisuka, 1926, holotype in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 421). Whitehead’s field numbers from specimens collected on the 1887 expedition are in the 1000s.

Three additional specimens of clara were listed by Sharpe (1889: 427), two of which came to AMNH and are paralectotypes: AMNH 700057 View Materials , male, 5 April 1888, White- head no. 2393 (Sharpe’s ‘‘b’’ or ‘‘c’’) ; AMNH 700058 View Materials , female, 3 February 1888, with the ‘‘8’’ overwritten by a ‘‘7’’(!), Whitehead no. 2104 (Sharpe’s ‘‘d’’) .

The second male paralectotype collected on 5 April 1888 is in BMNH, Register no. 1898.9.30.219, ex museum of Henry Seebohm (R. Prys-Jones, personal commun.).

AMNH has a fourth specimen of this form which was not listed by Sharpe, AMNH 700056, male, collected on 3 February ‘‘1887,’’ Whitehead no. 2103. The field number indicates that it also was collected in 1888. It may not have been in Sharpe’s hand when he described Z. clara and I do not consider it a paralectotype.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

Loc

Zosterops clara Sharpe

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Zosterops atricapilla atricapilla

van Balen, S. 2008: 449
Smythies, B. E. & G. W. H. Davison 2000: 594
Mees, G. F. 1957: 138
Hartert, E. 1920: 435
1920
Loc

Zosterops clara

Sharpe, R. B. 1888: 479
1888
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