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Zosterops lateralis subsp. cornwalli Mathews 1912

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  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Zosterops lateralis cornwalli Mathews

Zosterops lateralis cornwalli Mathews, 1912a: 385 (Mackay, Queensland).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 700958, adult female, collected at Mackay, 21.10S, 149.10E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, undated. From the Mathews Collection (6505) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, but did not mention how many specimens he examined. The holotype bears a Mathews Collection label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 505, upper figure, opp. p. 136, text p. 139), where the illustrated female is confirmed as the type of cornwalli. Mathews’ ‘‘no. 6505’’ is a single specimen of ‘‘ Zosterops vegeta’’ which he had purchased from the dealer Gerrard. The number ‘‘716’’ which appears on his collection label refers to the number of the species in Mathews (1908).

Mathews (1912a: 386) gave the range of cornwalli as ‘‘ Mid Queensland.’’ The following specimens are paratypes: Barron River, AMNH 700966 (Mathews no. 9556), female, 27 May 1911; Cairns, AMNH 700967 (2847), male, November 1908. The following specimens are probable paratypes; they were cataloged on 17 February 1912, shortly after Mathews description was published on 31 January 1912: Cairns, AMNH 700968 (10327), male, November 1911; AMNH 700969 (10325), male, October 1911; AMNH 700970 (10326), male, October 1911; AMNH 700971 (10328), female, November 1911; Tolga, AMNH 700973 (10323), female, August 1911; Malanda, AMNH 700974 (10324), female, August 1911. AMNH 700972 is not a paratype; even though it was collected at Cairns on 9 June 1884, it was not cataloged by Mathews until May 1913. Other specimens were either never in Mathews’ collection or were collected after the date of publication of cornwalli .

Notes

Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on pages 30-31

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References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.
  • Mees, G. F. 1969. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part III). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 3 - 390.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 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.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1923 a. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11, pts. 1 - 3. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1 - 208, pls. 491 - 508.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1908. Handlist of the birds of Australasia. Emu 7 supplement: 1 - 108.