Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann

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 : 43

Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann

Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann, 1908: 60 (Gadat in Gofa).

Now Zosterops poliogastrus poliogastrus Heuglin, 1861 . See Moreau, 1967: 331–332, Fry et al., 2000: 316–317, and van Balen, 2008: 473.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 699580 , adult male, collected at Gadat , Gamu-Gofa (5 Gofa), Ethiopia, on 31 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 733). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann listed as his type a male in the Rothschild Collection collected at Gadat on 31 January 1901. There were two such specimens, but Hartert (1920: 432), in listing types in the Rothschild Collection, gave Neumann’s unique field number of the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Neumann (1908: 60) gave the range of erlangeri as Shoa, Harar, Arussi mountains and the Omo Region. Paralectotypes in AMNH are: AMNH 699578 (Neumann no. 583), male, collected at Gardula, on 13 January 1901; AMNH 699579 (729), male, collected at Gadat, Gamu-Gofa, 31 January 1901; AMNH 699581 (404), female, Alata, Sidamo, 13 December 1900; AMNH 699582 (397), male, Habela, Sidamo, 12 December 1900. Earlier, these specimens were all listed as Z. p. poliogastrus by Neumann (1906: 241–242).

Gadat is shown on the map in Neumann (1902c) at ca. 06.20N, 36.50E.