Myzomela simplex mortyana Hartert

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 : 60-61

Myzomela simplex mortyana Hartert

Myzomela simplex mortyana Hartert, 1903b: 56 (Morty Island).

Now Myzomela obscura mortyana Hartert, 1903 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 401, and Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692586 , [male], Morotai (5 Morty) Island, 02.20N, 128.25E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, undated, by J.M. Dumas (no. M.59). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert had a single specimen of this form. It bears, in addition to the Rothschild type label, only a Rothschild Collection label marked ‘‘ Type,’’ giving Dumas as the collector and his number. Rothschild noted in his partial list of purchases (Archives, Department of Ornithology) that on 8 March 1899 he purchased 109 specimens of birds from ‘‘Morty.’’ The collection was probably made in late 1898. J.M. Dumas had been Alfred Everett’s assistant and he continued to collect after Everett’s death.