Zosterops lateralis valuensis Murphy and Mathews

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 : 32-33

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Zosterops lateralis valuensis Murphy and Mathews View in CoL

Zosterops lateralis valuensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 10 View in CoL (Valua Island, Banks Group, of the New Hebrides).

Now Zosterops lateralis valuensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 102–103, Bregulla, 1992: 252, Dickinson, 2003: 629, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 214063 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Mota Lava (5 Valua Island),

13.40S, 167.40E ( USBGN, 1974), Banks Islands, Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 17 September 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22738).

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; they had eight specimens collected in September 1926. The seven paratypes are: AMNH 214057–214062 About AMNH , 214067 About AMNH , two males, two females, and three sex ?.