Zosterops palpebrosa daitoensis Kuroda

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 : 6

[ Zosterops palpebrosa daitoensis Kuroda ]

Zosterops palpebrosa daitoensis Kuroda, 1923b: 120 (Minami-Daitojima, Borodino Islands) .

Now Zosterops japonicus daitoensis Kuroda, 1923 . See Morioka et al., 2005: 35.

Morioka et al. (2005: 35) noted that the holotype of daitoensis was almost certainly lost in World War II and listed identification data for paratypes. AMNH has a paratype of this form, AMNH 699843, adult female, collected on Minami Daitô-jima Island (5 South Daito Shima), 25.50N, 131.14E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 150), Daito (5 Borodino) Islands, Japan, on 18 October 1922, by H. Orii (no. 1391), Kuroda no. 7351. Now Zosterops japonicus daitoensis . This specimen has been placed with the type specimens at AMNH with a label to explain its status as a paratype.