Zosterops rendovae tetiparia Murphy

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 : 24

Zosterops rendovae tetiparia Murphy

Zosterops rendovae tetiparia Murphy, 1929: 7 (Tetipari) .

Now Zosterops kulambangrae tetiparius Murphy, 1929 . See Mees, 1961a: 147–149, and van Balen, 2008: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222074 , adult male, collected on Tetepare (5 Tetipari) Island, 08.45S, 157.30E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 7 August 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35095).

COMMENTS: Murphy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had 11 males and five females collected on Tetepare, 6–8 August 1928. There were, however, 11 males and five females in addition to the holotype. The paratypes are: males, 6 August, AMNH 222070 ; 7 August, AMNH 222071–222073 ; 8 August, AMNH 222075–222080 ; females, 7 August, AMNH 222081 , 222082 ; 8 August , AMNH 222083–222085 . Of these, AMNH 222070 was exchanged to NRM in June 1929, and AMNH 222076 and 222085 were exchanged with Rothschild ; when the last two were returned to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, they were renumbered 700747 and 700748, respectively. On 7 August 1928, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored off the Tetepare Plantation (Hamlin’s Journal S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition , Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH) .

See previous entry for discussion of the species name Z. rendovae vs Z. kulambangrae for this form, and relevant references.