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 View Materials , 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 View Materials , 213598 View Materials ; Espiritu Santo , males, AMNH 214050–214053 View Materials , female, AMNH 214065 View Materials , juvenile sex?, AMNH 215883 View Materials ; Gaua , male, AMNH 214056 View Materials ; Melapav , female, AMNH 214064 View Materials ; Bligh , male, AMNH 216128 View Materials ; Low , males, AMNH 216115– 216118 View Materials , 216120 View Materials , females, AMNH 216121 View Materials , 216122 View Materials , 216124 View Materials , 216125 View Materials ; Toga , male, AMNH 216126 View Materials , female, AMNH 216127 View Materials . AMNH 216119 View Materials and AMNH 216123 View Materials had already been exchanged to NRM and CM, respectively, and would not have been seen at AMNH by Mees. AMNH 216116 View Materials had been exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered AMNH 459013 View Materials 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.