Zosterops eichhorni 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 : 22

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475651
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scientific name	Zosterops eichhorni Hartert
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Zosterops eichhorni Hartert, 1926a: 48 (Nissan Island).

Now Zosterops griseotinctus eichhorni Hartert, 1926 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 139–142, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, Hadden, 2004: 219–220, and van Balen, 2008: 462–463.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700705 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Nissan Island , 04.25S, 154.10E, Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea, on 16 August 1924, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 9577). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Eichhorn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted ( Hartert, 1926a: 46) that he collected eight specimens, all in 1924. Only seven of these specimens came to AMNH ; the six paratypes are: male, AMNH 700704 About AMNH (Eichhorn no. 9472), 29 July ; females, AMNH 700706 About AMNH (9539), 11 August ; AMNH 700707 About AMNH (9467), 29 July ; AMNH 700708 About AMNH (9591), 20 August ; AMNH 700709 About AMNH (9578), 16 August ; AMNH 700710 About AMNH (9463), 28 July .

References

Hadden, D. 2004. Birds and bird lore of Bougainville and the North Solomons. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 312 pp., 224 pls., map.

Hartert, E. 1926 a. On the birds of Feni and Nissan islands, east of south New Ireland. Novitates Zoologicae 33: 33 - 48.

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.