Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda 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 : 27

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scientific name	Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews
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Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews View in CoL

Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 3 View in CoL (Malo Island, New Hebrides Group).

Now Zosterops flavifrons brevicauda Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 130–131, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 213604 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Malo Island , 15.41S, 167.10E ( USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 27 August 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22378). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they had four specimens from Malo and three from Espiritu Santo. The paratypes are: Malo, males, AMNH 213603 About AMNH , 213605 About AMNH , female, AMNH 213613 About AMNH ; Espiritu Santo, males, AMNH 214071 About AMNH , 215882 About AMNH (juvenile), 216153 .

References

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