Zosterops virens somereni 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 : 43-44

Zosterops virens somereni Hartert

Zosterops virens somereni Hartert, 1928: 207 (Mount Kenya, above Chuka).

Now Zosterops poliogastrus kikuyuensis Sharpe, 1891 . See Moreau, 1967: 332, Fry et al., 2000: 316–317, and van Balen, 2008: 473.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699402 , adult male, collected above Chuka , 00.20S, 37.38E ( Polhill, 1988), Mount Kenya, Kenya, on 15 January 1921, by Noel van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type the only male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected at Chuka on 15 January and noted that he had 12 specimens collected by Noel van Someren and two collected by J. Makinder (so spelled on his own label). There were, in fact, 12 specimens in addition to the holotype collected by Noel van Someren. The 14 paratypes are: above Chuka , AMNH 699401 , 699403–699406 , collected 15–17 January 1922, by Noel van Someren ; Mount Kenya, 10,000 ft, west slope, AMNH 699407 , 699408 , collected 10 September 1899, by H.J. Makinder (nos. 72 and 73) ; Meru, AMNH 699409–699415 , collected 22 December 1920 – 10 January 1921, by Noel van Someren .