Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 18

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477519
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scientific name	Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert
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Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, 1914d: 108 (Manus) .

Now Zosterops hypoxanthus admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, 1914 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 95, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, and van Balen, 2008: 457–458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700448 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Manus, Admiralty Islands , Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 September 1913, by Albert F. Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 6132). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. In their report on the expedition, Rothschild and Hartert (1914c: 298) listed 12 specimens, giving the Meek numbers for each. Ten of these, including the type, came to AMNH ; the other two were perhaps exchanged to another collection by Rothschild prior to that. The nine paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 700447 About AMNH (Meek no. 6164), 700449 (6146), 700450 (5960), 700451 (5984), 700452 (6057), 700453 (6060), 700454 (6122), 700455 (6133), 700456 (6141). The two missing specimens bear Meek nos. 6159 and 6165 .

Rothschild and Hartert (1914c: 282) noted that Eichhorn’s party camped close to the German settlement on Manus Island. In the draft annual report of German New Guinea for 1913–1914 ( Sack and Clark, 1980: 61), the following appears with reference to Manus: ‘‘An Australian spent the period from September to October near the Imperial Station, engaged in collecting birds and butterflies for the Tring Museum (Rothschild) in London.’’ The Manus Station was opened in October 1911, on Seeadler Harbour ( Firth, 1983: 103) and is now known as Lorengau, 02.01S, 147.13E (Times Atlas).

Mayr and Diamond (2001: 396) and other authors have included this form in Z. atrifrons .