Zosterops lateralis tropica Mees

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 : 32

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scientific name	Zosterops lateralis tropica Mees
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Zosterops lateralis tropica Mees, 1969: 100 (Espiritu Santo) .

Now Zosterops lateralis tropicus Mees, 1969 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 100–102, Bregulla, 1992: 252, Dickinson, 2003: 629, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 214054 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Espiritu Santo Island , 15.15S, 166.50E ( USBGN, 1974), Vanuatu, on 1 September 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 22507). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mees gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range of tropica as ‘‘the northern New Hebrides: Malo, Espiritu Santo, Tongoa (off Espiritu Santo, not to be confused with Tongoa near Epi) ; Banks Group : Gaua, Melapav, Ureparapara or Blight (sic) ; Torres Group : Low Island , Toga. ’’ Specimens other than the holotype that Mees examined from those islands are paratypes of tropica. Mees visited AMNH when working on this part of his Zosteropidae monograph and would have seen all of the specimens in the AMNH collection. Paratypes in AMNH are: Malo, males, AMNH 213597 About AMNH , 213598 About AMNH ; Espiritu Santo , males, AMNH 214050–214053 About AMNH , female, AMNH 214065 About AMNH , juvenile sex?, AMNH 215883 About AMNH ; Gaua , male, AMNH 214056 About AMNH ; Melapav , female, AMNH 214064 About AMNH ; Bligh , male, AMNH 216128 About AMNH ; Low , males, AMNH 216115– 216118 About AMNH , 216120 About AMNH , females, AMNH 216121 About AMNH , 216122 About AMNH , 216124 About AMNH , 216125 About AMNH ; Toga , male, AMNH 216126 About AMNH , female, AMNH 216127 About AMNH . AMNH 216119 About AMNH and AMNH 216123 About AMNH had already been exchanged to NRM and CM, respectively, and would not have been seen at AMNH by Mees. AMNH 216116 About AMNH had been exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered AMNH 459013 About AMNH when that collection came to AMNH in 1932 ; it would have been part of Mees’ type series.

Bregulla (1992: 252) listed Tanna and Aniwa birds as Z. l. tropicus without comment. The holotype of this taxon had not previously been included in the type collection at AMNH.