Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert

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Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert

Zosterops palpebrosa alani Hartert, 1905b: 45 (S. Dionisio, Volcano Islands) .

Now Zosterops japonicus alani Hartert, 1905 . See Mees, 1957: 107–108, Dickinson, 2003: 625, Morioka et al., 2005: 22–23, and van Balen, 2008: 445–446.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699737 , adult male, collected on Iwo Jima (5?S[an] Dionisio Island ), 24.47N, 141.19E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 152), Iwo Islands (5 Volcano Islands), Japan, on 29 May 1904, by collectors for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert’s type was cited as a male collected on 29 May 1904 on S. Dionisio, Volcano Islands. That date is unique to the above Rothschild specimen, and it bears a Rothschild type label in addition to the Owston label. Mees (1957: 108) also listed this specimen as the holotype. The type locality of alani has been discussed by Morioka et al. (2005: 23), who think that Iwo Jima is the most likely of the three Iwo Islands. Hartert did not enumerate his type series, but nine paratypes from the same locality came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 699738–699746, three males and six females, collected between 13 May and 5 June 1904 by Owston’s collectors. All bear the Owston number ‘‘D 13,’’ which may refer to the species or to the collector.