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 ?.

References

Bregulla, H. L. 1992. Birds of Vanuatu. Oswestry, Shropshire, England: Anthony Nelson, 294 pp.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Mees, G. F. 1969. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part III). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 3 - 390.

Murphy, R. C., and G. M. Mathews. 1929. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VII. Zosteropidae. American Museum Novitates 356: 1 - 14.

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.