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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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.

References

Hartert, E. 1897 b. Descriptions of seven new species of birds and one new subspecies from Flores, and of one new subspecies from Djampea, all collected by Mr. Alfred Everett. Novitates Zoologicae 4: 170 - 172.

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

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

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.

White, C. M. N., and M. D. Bruce. 1986. The birds of Wallacea. B. O. U. check-list no. 7. London: British Ornithologists' Union, 524 pp.