Zosterops superciliosa Reichenow

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 : 41-42

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Zosterops superciliosa Reichenow, 1892: 192 (Wadelai (Kiri und Fadjulli)).

Now Zosterops senegalensis senegalensis Bonaparte, 1850 View in CoL . See Chapin, 1954b: 180, Mackworth-Praed and Grant, 1960: 736, Fry et al., 2000: 306–310, Carswell et al., 2005: 414, and van Balen, 2008: 470–471.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 699282, adult male, collected at Pajule (5 Fadjulli), 02.58N, 32.57E (Times Atlas), Uganda, undated, by Emin Pasha. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Reichenow (1892: 192) based his description on two specimens from Wadelai (Kiri and Fadjulli) collected by Emin Pasha, but did not designate a type. The Fadjulli specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and Hartert (1920: 433) listed it as either a type or cotype, depending on whether or not Reichenow had actually seen the second specimen in BMNH. That specimen is not listed by Warren and Harrison (1971: 546) but may lie unrecognized in the collection. Neumann (1904a: 111) said that only the two specimens existed, both collected by Emin. According to Hartert (1920: 433), Reichenow had probably borrowed the above specimen from Hartlaub before Rothschild bought part of the Emin collection from him, and it was Neumann who marked the above specimen as the type. Actually, the specimen has been marked both ‘‘Typus’’ and ‘‘Cotypus,’’ and variously overwritten. It does not have the original Emin label, but its label is marked ‘‘Emin coll. ex Hartlaub.’’

Mackworth-Praed and Grant (1960: 736) considered superciliosa a synonym of Z. s. senegalensis ; it was omitted from the synonymy by Moreau (1967: 329).

References

Bonaparte, C. L. 1850. Conspectus generum avium, vol. 1. Lugduni Batavorum: E. J. Brill, 543 pp.

Carswell, M., D. Pomeroy, J. Reynolds, and H. Tushabe. 2005. The bird atlas of Uganda. Oxford: British Ornithologists' Club and British Ornithologists' Union, xi + 553 pp.

Chapin, J. P. 1954 b. The birds of the Belgian Congo. Part 4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: ix + 846 pp., 27 pls.

Fry, C. H., S. Keith, and E. K. Urban (editors). 2000. The birds of Africa. Vol. 6. London: Academic Press, 724 pp, 36 pls.

Hartert, E. 1920. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection (cont'd.). Novitates Zoologicae 27: 425 - 505.

Mackworth-Praed, C. W., and C. H. B. Grant. 1960. African handbook of birds, Series 1. Birds of eastern and north eastern Africa. Vol. 2, 2 nd ed. London: Longman, 1106 pp.

Moreau, R. E. 1967. Family Zosteropidae, African and Indian Ocean taxa. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 326 - 337. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

Neumann, O. 1904 a. Uber die afrikanischen gelbbauchigen Zosterops - Formen. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 12: 109 - 118.

Reichenow, A. 1892. Zur Vogelfauna von Kamerun. Erster Nachtrag. Journal fur Ornithologie 40: 177 - 195, 1 pl.

van Balen, S. 2008. Family Zosteropidae (whiteeyes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 402 - 485. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Warren, R. L. M., and C. J. O. Harrison. 1971. Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2. Passerines. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 628 pp.