Zosterops flavifrons gauensis 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 : 26-27

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

Zosterops flavifrons gauensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 5 View in CoL (Gaua Island, in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides).

Now Zosterops flavifrons gauensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 129–130, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 216131 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Gaua Island , 14.17S, 167.30E ( USBGN, 1974c), Banks Islands, Vanuatu, on 22 November 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 23973). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype and said that they had 11 specimens. The ten paratypes are: AMNH 216129, 216130, 216132– 216139.

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.