Zosterops omoensis Neumann

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 : 40-41

Zosterops omoensis Neumann

Zosterops omoensis Neumann, 1904b: 162 (Senti- Tal zwischen Uba und Gofa).

Now Zosterops abyssinicus omoensis Neumann, 1904 . See Fry et al., 2000: 314–315, Kirwan, 2007: 140–141, and van Balen, 2008: 469–470.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699556 , adult male, collected in the Senti Valley between Uba and Gofa, Ethiopia, on 28 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 690). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the adult male from the Senti Valley was designated the holotype, and a second specimen, a female from Alesa in Koscha, was mentioned. Neumann (1906: 242) listed the same two specimens, giving his field number for each. The paratype is AMNH 699557, female, collected at Alesa in Koscha on 23 February 1901 by Neumann (no. 921).

The Zagē Shet’ (5 Senti) flows into the Omo River at 06.39N, 37.12E (USBGN, 1982b). This stream is also shown on the map in Neumann (1902c), spelled ‘‘Zenti.’’