Zosterops palpebrosa cacharensis Baker

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Zosterops palpebrosa cacharensis Baker, 1922: 144 (Gunjong, N. Cachar) .

Now Zosterops palpebrosus palpebrosus (Temminck, 1824) View in CoL . See Mees, 1957: 53–60, Mees,

1969: 248–249, Dickinson, 2003: 625, and van Balen, 2008: 446–447.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 699944, AMNH 699- 945, AMNH 699946, adult males, collected at Gunjong, 25.19N, 93.01E ( Lozupone et al., 2004), Northern Cachar, Assam, India, on 7 December 1895, by E.C.S. Baker. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Baker gave as his type a male collected at Gunjong on 7 December 1895, from his collection and housed in the Rothschild Collection. There are three males with those data that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; on none of them does Baker give any indication of type status, and the Rothschild type label is the only indication that AMNH 699946 About AMNH was the selected type specimen. Hartert’s (1928: 208) later listing of types in the Rothschild Collection also failed to distinguish the one with the type label from the other two with the same data. Because there seems to be no indication of which specimen Baker himself selected as his type and because the presence of the type label alone does not serve in that respect ( ICZN, 1999: 8, Art. 9.6), I consider all three to be syntypes .

Mayr (1967: 295) included the whitebellied cacharensis as a synonym of Z. p. siamensis. Strangely, Mees (1957: 58) did not trace the type of this form, even though in the original description it was said to be in the Rothschild Collection.

References

Baker, E. C. 1922. A note on some Oriental Zosteropidae, and descriptions of new subspecies. Ibis (11) 4: 142 - 147.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.

Lozupone, P., B. M. Beehler, and S. D. Ripley. 2004. Ornithological gazetteer of the Indian subcontinent. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 190 pp.

Mayr, E. 1967. Family Zosteropidae, Indo-Australian taxa. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 289 - 326. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

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

Mees, G. F. 1969. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part III). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 3 - 390.

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.