Chloropsis viridis viriditectus Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 92

Chloropsis viridis viriditectus Hartert

Chloropsis viridis viriditectus Hartert, 1902a: 212 (Baram, Borneo) .

Now Chloropsis sonnerati zosterops Vigors, 1830 . See Chasen and Boden Kloss, 1930: 62, and Robson, 2000: 366.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 564920 , [adult male], collected on the Baram River , Sarawak, Malaysia, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The type of viriditectus was described as a male from Baram, collected by Everett. The above specimen is one of two unsexed and undated specimens from the Rothschild Collection that were collected by Everett on the Baram River ; both are in adult male plumage. It bears the Rothschild type label as well as the field label, and Hartert has sexed it as a male on the type label. The second specimen has only the Rothschild collection label with mimimal data and no sex designation. Because AMNH 564920 is the only one of the two that is marked ‘‘male’’ and because it bears the Rothschild type label, I consider it the holotype. AMNH 564521 is the the paratype .