Zosterops rennelliana 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 : 22-23

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475653
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scientific name	Zosterops rennelliana Murphy
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Zosterops rennelliana Murphy, 1929: 10 (Rennell Island, Solomon Group).

Now Zosterops rennellianus Murphy, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 142–143, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 397, and van Balen, 2008: 463.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222138 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Rennell Island , Solomon Islands, on 28 April 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 35299).

COMMENTS: Murphy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that six males and two females were collected 27–30 August 1928. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 222136 About AMNH , 222137 About AMNH , 222139–222141 About AMNH ; females, AMNH 222142 About AMNH , 222143 About AMNH . AMNH 222141 About AMNH had been exchanged to Rothschild and when his collection came to AMNH in 1932, it was renumbered 700711. Other Rennell specimens were collected after the publication date of the name .

During the Whitney Expedition’s stay on Rennell in 1928, its vessel, France, was anchored in Lughu (5 Kungava or Kunggava) Bay ( Mayr and Hamlin, 1931: 3), 11.40S, 160.17E (USBGN, 1974b).

References

Mayr, E., and H. Hamlin. 1931. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XIV. With notes on the geography of Rennell Island and the ecology of its bird life. American Museum Novitates 488: 1 - 11.

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.

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.