Zosterops minor ultima Mayr

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 : 18

Zosterops minor ultima Mayr

Zosterops minor ultima Mayr, 1955: 45 (New Hanover).

Now Zosterops hypoxanthus ultimus Mayr, 1955 . See Mees, 1961a: 94–95, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, and van Balen, 2008: 457–458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700443 , adult male, collected on New Hanover Island , 02.35S, 150.10E (PNG, 1984), New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 12 February 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8164). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of ultimus as New Hanover and New Ireland. Eichhorn collected eight specimens on New Hanover ( Hartert, 1924b: 211) and seven (actually eight) specimens on New Ireland ( Hartert, 1925: 133); in addition, there are two specimens collected by Captain Caley Webster on New Hanover (ex spirits) and one without date from the Curtis Collection. The 18 paratypes, AMNH 700428–700442, 700444–700446, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and would have been available to Mayr. Mayr and Diamond (2001: 396) listed ultimus as a subspecies of Zosterops atrifrons .