Zosterops montana pectoralis Mayr

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 : 12-13

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Zosterops montana pectoralis Mayr (in Delacour and Mayr), 1945: 116 (Canloan [sic], Volcano, Negros, Philippine Islands).

Now Zosterops montanus pectoralis Mayr, 1945 View in CoL . See Mees, 1957: 192–193, Dickinson et al., 1991: 401–402, and van Balen, 2008: 450.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700150 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Canlaon (not Canloan) Volcano , 6000 ft, 10.25N, 123.08E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 417), Negros Island , Philippines, on 15 April 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.442). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that his type series comprised three specimens. Mees (1957: 193) also cited AMNH 700150 About AMNH as the type of pectoralis . The two paratypes, both from Canlaon Volcano, are: AMNH 700151 About AMNH (Whitehead no. B.480), female, 17 (or 19?) April 1896 ; AMNH 700152 About AMNH (B.408), male, 11 April 1896 .

References

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.

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.