Myzomela pluto Forbes

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 : 62

[ Myzomela pluto Forbes ]

Forbes (1879: 266) reluctantly introduced the name Myzomela pluto , saying that Count Salvadori (in litt.) was ‘‘inclined’’ to separate specimens of nigrita from Yapen and Mios Nom (islands in Geelvink Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia) as a new species, M. pluto , on the basis of larger size. But Forbes himself considered it better to keep only one species. He then did not mention pluto again except for giving some measurements labeled ‘‘ pluto . ’’ AMNH received via the Rothschild Collection three specimens from Mios Num that had come to Rothschild from Salvadori and were considered syntypes of pluto by Arbocco et al. (1986: 23). Salvadori (1881: 292) had specimens d through p of pluto , but he listed separately the specimens that had been included by Forbes in his description of pluto as Salvadori specimens d, f, i, and p; the three specimens in AMNH are Salvadori specimens k, l, and m, and should not be considered syntypes.