Lophozosterops, Hartert, 1896

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 : 39

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scientific name	Lophozosterops
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Lophozosterops View in CoL (an potius Zosterops )

subcristatus Hartert

Lophozosterops View in CoL (an potius Zosterops View in CoL ) subcristatus Hartert, 1897b: 171 (hills of South Flores).

Now Lophozosterops dohertyi subcristatus Hartert, 1897 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 202–204, White and Bruce, 1986: 419, and van Balen, 2008: 482–483.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 701436 About AMNH , adult male, collected on southern Flores Island, above 3000 ft, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in October 1896, by collectors for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined. Five specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; Hartert (1920: 438) designated as lectotype the only male specimen marked as having come from above 3000 ft. The four paralectotypes in AMNH, all from southern Flores and collected in October 1896, are: male, AMNH 701437 About AMNH , 3300 ft ; sex?, AMNH 701438 About AMNH , 3300 ft ; females, AMNH 701439 About AMNH , 701440 About AMNH , above 3000 ft.