Zosterops aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant, 1895

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Zosterops aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant

Zosterops aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant, 1895b: 40 (mountains of Lepanto in Northern Luzon).

Now Zosterops nigrorum aureiloris Ogilvie-Grant, 1895 View in CoL . See Mees, 1957: 166–168, Dickinson et al., 1991: 399, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 700076 About AMNH , adult male, 15 November 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 649) ; AMNH 700077 About AMNH , female, 21 February 1895, by John Whitehead (no. A.185) ; AMNH 700078 About AMNH , female, 21 November 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 703), all collected at Barit , 17.19N, 120.42E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 415), Abra Prov., northern Luzon Island , Philippines. From the Rothschild Collection GoogleMaps .

COMMENTS: In the brief original description, Ogilvie-Grant gave no indication of the sex or number of his specimens or exactly where they were obtained. In his somewhat more complete account, he ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1895a: 453) noted that he had both males, females, and ‘‘younger examples.’’ Ogilvie- Grant (1895a: 434) cited a letter in which Whitehead noted that he was leaving for the northern highlands at the beginning of November 1894, and another letter (Ogilvie- Grant, 1895a: 435) dated 16 February 1895, where Whitehead reported his intention of returning to the coast. The above three specimens were collected from within that period and are considered syntypes. They had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection and were not listed by Hartert in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection; nevertheless, their existence was mentioned by Mees (1957: 167) who gave no details. Other syntypes mentioned by Mees are in ZMB and in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 44). Benson (1999: 138) listed two syntypes in UMZC.

References

Benson, C. W. 1999. Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 4, 221 pp.

Dickinson, E. C., R. S. Kennedy, and K. C. Parkes. 1991. The birds of the Philippines. B. O. U. Check-list No. 12. Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 507 pp.

Mees, G. F. 1957. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part I). Zoologische Verhandelingen 35: 12 - 204.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. 1895 b. [Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- Grant exhibited skins of some new species of birds discovered by Mr. John Whitehead: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 4: 40 - 41.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. 1895 a. On the birds of the Philippine Islands. - Part V. The highlands of the Province of Lepanto, north Luzon. Ibis (7) 1: 433 - 472, pls. 12 - 14.

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.

Warren, R. L. M., and C. J. O. Harrison. 1971. Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2. Passerines. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 628 pp.