Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert
Description
Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert
Zosterops admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, 1914d: 108 (Manus).
Now Zosterops hypoxanthus admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, 1914. See Mees, 1961a: 95, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, and van Balen, 2008: 457–458.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700448, adult male, collected on Manus, Admiralty Islands, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 September 1913, by Albert F. Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 6132). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. In their report on the expedition, Rothschild and Hartert (1914c: 298) listed 12 specimens, giving the Meek numbers for each. Ten of these, including the type, came to AMNH; the other two were perhaps exchanged to another collection by Rothschild prior to that. The nine paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 700447 (Meek no. 6164), 700449 (6146), 700450 (5960), 700451 (5984), 700452 (6057), 700453 (6060), 700454 (6122), 700455 (6133), 700456 (6141). The two missing specimens bear Meek nos. 6159 and 6165.
Rothschild and Hartert (1914c: 282) noted that Eichhorn’s party camped close to the German settlement on Manus Island. In the draft annual report of German New Guinea for 1913–1914 (Sack and Clark, 1980: 61), the following appears with reference to Manus: ‘‘An Australian spent the period from September to October near the Imperial Station, engaged in collecting birds and butterflies for the Tring Museum (Rothschild) in London.’’ The Manus Station was opened in October 1911, on Seeadler Harbour (Firth, 1983: 103) and is now known as Lorengau, 02.01S, 147.13E (Times Atlas).
Mayr and Diamond (2001: 396) and other authors have included this form in Z. atrifrons.
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF95FF9AFFBBFFCDFFFFFF873967FFA4 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1913-09-23
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Zosterops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 700447 , AMNH 700448
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild and Hartert
- Species
- admiralitatis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1913-09-23
References
- Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1914 d. [The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph. D., F. R. S., exhibited a number of birds from the Admiralty Islands …. The new forms were described by Mr. Rothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert as follows: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 33: 104 - 109.
- Mees, G. F. 1961 a. A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part II). Zoologische Verhandelingen 50: 3 - 168, 4 pls.
- Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.
- van Balen, S. 2008. Family Zosteropidae (whiteeyes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 402 - 485. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
- Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1914 c. The birds of the Admiralty Islands, north of German New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 21: 281 - 298.
- Sack, P., and D. Clark (editors and translators). 1980. German New Guinea. The draft annual report for 1913 - 1914. Canberra: Department of Law Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 170 pp.
- Firth, S. 1983. New Guinea under the Germans. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 216 pp.