Zosterops abyssinica socotrana 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

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scientific name	Zosterops abyssinica socotrana Neumann
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Zosterops abyssinica socotrana Neumann, 1908: 59 (Dahamis, Sokotra) .

Now Zosterops abyssinicus socotranus Neumann, 1908 View in CoL . See Fry et al., 2000: 314–315, Kirwan, 2007: 141–142, and van Balen, 2008: 469–470.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699559 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Dahamis , 350 ft, Socotra Island, 12.30N, 54.00E ( USBGN, 1976), Yemen, on 20 December 1898, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant and H.O. Forbes (no. 190). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann said that the type, in the Rothschild Collection, was a male collected at Dahamis on 20 December 1898. AMNH 699559 About AMNH is the only Rothschild specimen in AMNH bearing those data. Three additional specimens are paratypes: AMNH 699558 About AMNH (field no. 419), female, collected at Adho Diemellus, 3500 ft, on 10 February 1899 ; AMNH 699560 About AMNH (193) female, collected at Dahamis, 350 ft, on 20 December 1898 ; AMNH 699561 About AMNH (232) female, collected at Thlütied, 1200 ft, on 7 January 1899 .

Kirwan (2007: 141–142) discussed the various characters attributed to Z. a. socotranus by various authors and found it to be ‘‘only very doubtfully recognisable’’; van Balen recognized it.

References

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

Kirwan, G. M. 2007. Studies of Socotran birds IV. Synonymization of six endemic bird taxa, with comments on the name Onychognathus blythii creaghi. Sandgrouse 29: 135 - 148.

Neumann, O. 1908. [Prof. Neumann also described and (with the exception of Apus reichenowi and Lagonosticta rara forbesi) exhibited examples of the following new African birds: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 21: 57 - 60.

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.