Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 25

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475661
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scientific name	Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert
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Zosterops alberti Rothschild and Hartert, 1908b: 364 ( San Cristobal).

Now Zosterops rendovae rendovae Tristram, 1882 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 157–162, Mayr, 1967: 313, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700667 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Anuta (5 Yanuta) Island, 10.20S, 161.21E ( USBGN, 1974b), Makira (5 San Cristobal) Island, Solomon Islands, on 25 April 1908, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4078). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert designated as the holotype the specimen bearing Meek’s unique number 4078. Their type series comprised three males and three females from Anuta and Makira, with Meek’s numbers listed. Paratypes, all collected in 1908, are: Makira, females, AMNH 700665 About AMNH (Meek no. 4124), 1 May ; AMNH 700666 About AMNH (4123), 1 May ; Anuta, males, AMNH 700668 About AMNH (4086), 26 April ; AMNH 700669 About AMNH (4102) 27 April ; female, AMNH 700670 About AMNH (4103), 27 April. The entire island of San Cristobal is today called Makira , but there is a Makira Harbor in the northwest part of the island within which is the island of Anuta. This is undoubtedly where Meek anchored his boat .

Mees (1961a: 157–162) and van Balen (2008: 464) correctly used Z. r. rendovae for the Makira subspecies as it was shown that the original description of rendovae applied to the Makira bird.

References

Mayr, E. 1967. Family Zosteropidae, Indo-Australian taxa. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 289 - 326. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.

Mees, G. F. 1961 a. A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part II). Zoologische Verhandelingen 50: 3 - 168, 4 pls.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1908 b. On a collection of birds from San Christoval, Solomon Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 15: 359 - 365.

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.