Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475600
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scientific name	Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert
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Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert, 1905b: 45 (S. Dionisio, Volcano Islands) .

Now Zosterops japonicus alani Hartert, 1905 View in CoL . See Mees, 1957: 107–108, Dickinson, 2003: 625, Morioka et al., 2005: 22–23, and van Balen, 2008: 445–446.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699737 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Iwo Jima (5?S[an] Dionisio Island ), 24.47N, 141.19E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 152), Iwo Islands (5 Volcano Islands), Japan, on 29 May 1904, by collectors for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert’s type was cited as a male collected on 29 May 1904 on S. Dionisio, Volcano Islands. That date is unique to the above Rothschild specimen, and it bears a Rothschild type label in addition to the Owston label. Mees (1957: 108) also listed this specimen as the holotype. The type locality of alani has been discussed by Morioka et al. (2005: 23), who think that Iwo Jima is the most likely of the three Iwo Islands. Hartert did not enumerate his type series, but nine paratypes from the same locality came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 699738–699746, three males and six females, collected between 13 May and 5 June 1904 by Owston’s collectors. All bear the Owston number ‘‘D 13,’’ which may refer to the species or to the collector.

References

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. 1905 b. [Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described two new birds from the Volcano Islands, south of the Bonin Islands, as follows: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 15: 45 - 46.

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

Morioka, H., E. C. Dickinson, T. Hiraoka, D. Allen, and T. Yamasaki. 2005. Types of Japanese birds. Tokyo: National Science Museum Monographs no. 28, 154 pp.

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.