Zosterops palpebrosa foghaensis 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 : 13

Zosterops palpebrosa foghaensis Stresemann

Zosterops palpebrosa foghaensis Stresemann, 1912b: 347 (Gunung Fogha (5 Kapala Madang 5 ‘‘Mount Mada’’), N.W. Buru, 5500f.).

Now Zosterops montanus montanus Bonaparte, 1850 . See Mees, 1957: 176–189, White and Bruce, 1986: 413, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700153 , adult female, collected on Mount Kapalatmada (5 Gunung Fogha), 03.15S, 126.09E ( USBGN, 1982a), Buru Island , Moluccas, Indonesia, on 28 February 1912, by Erwin Stresemann (no. 1091). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Stresemann cited his unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Stresemann (1914b: 391), reporting on the avifauna of Buru including his collection, listed only the type specimen, adding that a second specimen had been shot too badly to be preserved.

At the end of February 1912, Stresemann (1914b: 361) and his companion, Dr. Deninger, climbed ‘‘Mount Fogha,’’ the highest peak of which was 2060 m, but they only reached 1400 m before they were forced to turn back. The highest peak shown on my map is Mount Kapalatmada, which is probably the same as ‘‘Kapala Madang 5 Mount Mada,’’ given by Stresemann as equivalent names for Fogha. Rothschild and Hartert (1923: 118), in their description of Madanga ruficollis , equate mountains ‘‘ Madang,’’ ‘‘Mada,’’ and ‘‘Fogha’’ with Mount Tomahu, 03.14S, 126.04E (USBGN, 1982a), but Stresemann’s equivalent names seem adequate to me.