Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr

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Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr and Gilliard

Zosterops novaeguineae shaw-mayeri Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 14 (Yandara, north slope of Mt. Wilhelm, Central Hightlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 112–115, Coates, 1990: 330–332, and van Balen, 2008: 461.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348224, adult male, collected at Yandara, 6000 ft, on the north slope of Mount Wilhelm, 05.45S, 145.00E ( PNG, 1984), Bismarck Range, Simbu-Madang provincial border, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1950, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 707).

COMMENTS: This single specimen was collected by Shaw Mayer and was a gift to the 1950 Gilliard Expedition. Mees (1961a: 113–115) considered wahgiensis and shawmayeri synonyms and, as first revisor, select- ed wahgiensis as the valid name of the subspecies on the basis of line priority.

For information on Fred Shaw Mayer, see Peckover and George (1992).

References

Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 576 pp.

Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1951. New species and subspecies of birds from the highlands of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 1524: 1 - 15.

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

Peckover, W. S., and G. G. George. 1992. '' Masta Pisin' ' - The bird man of New Guinea Fred Shaw Mayer M. B. E. 1899 - 1989. Emu 92: 250 - 254.

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.