Zosterops flavissima Hartert, 1903

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 : 15

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Zosterops flavissima Hartert

Zosterops flavissima Hartert, 1903a: 29 (Binongka insula).

Now Zosterops chloris flavissimus Hartert, 1903 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 32, White and Bruce, 1986: 414, and van Balen, 2008: 453–454.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700315 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Binongka Island , 05.57S, 124.02E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Tukang Besi Islands , Indonesia, on 9 December 1901, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 4215). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and listed 19 specimens in his type series, giving Kühn’s numbers for them. Only ten of these came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and it is not known whether the remainder were exchanged to another collection by Rothschild or given to a dealer for sale. Mees (1961a: 32) said, without giving details, that he had examined eight specimens ‘‘belonging to three different institutions and one private collection,’’ all

collected by Kühn. Two specimens at AMNH were purchased by Leonard C. Sanford from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg and given to AMNH. One of them is certainly a paratype: AMNH 295140 About AMNH (Kühn number 4224), male, Binongka Island, 10 December 1901 ; the other is probably a paratype: AMNH 295141 About AMNH (no Kühn number present), Binongka Island , female, 10 December 1901. The nine paratypes from the Rothschild Collection in AMNH are: Binongka Island, AMNH 700316 About AMNH (Kühn no. 4217), male, 10 December 1901, AMNH 700317 About AMNH (4219), female, 10 December 1901, AMNH 700318 About AMNH (4221), female, 9 December 1901 ; Kalidupa Island , AMNH 700319 About AMNH (4580), male, 10 January 1902, AMNH 700320 About AMNH (4579), male, 6 January 1902 ; Tamia Island , AMNH 700321 About AMNH (4425), male, 15 December 1901, AMNH 700322 About AMNH (4422), male, 22 December 1901, AMNH 700323 About AMNH (4423), female, 21 December 1901 ; Wantjee Island , AMNH 700324 About AMNH (4448), female, 2 December 1901 .