Zosterops meeki Hartert, 1898

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 : 17-18

Zosterops meeki Hartert

Zosterops meeki Hartert, 1898a: 528 (Sudest) . Now Zosterops meeki Hartert, 1898 . See Mees,

1961a: 91, and van Balen, 2008: 457.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700582 , adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Sudest or Tagula)

Island, 11.20S, 153.10E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 April 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1753). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that he had a male and a female specimen. Later, Rothschild and Hartert (1903c: 452) listed the type as the male with Meek’s field number ‘‘1753,’’ thereby designating the above specimen the lectotype. The paralectotype is AMNH 700586 (Meek no. 1754) collected on the same day.