Zosterops elgonensis van Someren

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 : 42

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475727
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scientific name	Zosterops elgonensis van Someren
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Zosterops elgonensis van Someren, 1922: 191 (Bukedi) .

Now Zosterops senegalensis jacksoni Neumann, 1899 View in CoL . See Moreau, 1967: 330, Fry et al., 2000: 306–310, and van Balen, 2008: 470–471.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699455 View Materials , adult male, collected at Bukedi , Mount Elgon, 01.08N, 34.32E ( Carswell et al., 2005: 512), Uganda, on 13 January 1916, from the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren listed the unique date of 13 January 1916 for his type of elgonensis in the Rothschild Collection. Paratypes in AMNH are: Bumasifa , Mount Elgon, AMNH 699456 View Materials , male, 8 March 1916 ; AMNH 699457 View Materials , female, 8 February 1916 ; Mount Elgon , AMNH 699458 View Materials , female, March 1915 ; Maroto, AMNH 699459 View Materials , male, and AMNH 699460 View Materials , female, collected by J. Allen Turner, in December 1917 .