Zosterops westernensis vegeta 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 : 30

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scientific name	Zosterops westernensis vegeta Hartert
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Zosterops westernensis vegeta Hartert, 1899c: 425 (Cape York).

Now Zosterops lateralis vegetus Hartert, 1899 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 80–86, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 687–691, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700950 View Materials , adult male, collected on ‘‘ Cape York ,’’ northern Queensland, Australia, on 15 July 1898, by collectors for Albert S. Meek (no. 1941). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Hartert only saying that the types were shot in July, without mentioning the number of specimens taken. Six syntypes came to AMNH. Hartert (1920: 433) listed the specimen bearing Meek’s number 1941 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The five paralectotypes are: males, AMNH 700948 View Materials , 700949 View Materials , 700951 View Materials ; females, AMNH 700952 View Materials , 700953 View Materials , all collected on Cape York in July 1898 .

Mees (1969: 80) discussed this population under the name Z. l. ramsayi; however, Schodde and Mason (1999: 690–691), in their more recent study, have recognized vegetus, and this has been followed by van Balen (2008: 467).

Parker (1966: 121–122) showed that in July 1898, Meek’s collectors were on the Chester River, 13.42S, 143.33E.