Zosterops poliogastra subsp. erlangeri Neumann

Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann, 1908: 60 (Gadat in Gofa). Now Zosterops poliogastrus poliogastrus Heuglin, 1861. See Moreau, 1967: 331–332, Fry et al., 2000: 316–317, and van Balen, 2008: 473. LECTOTYPE: AMNH 699580, adult male, collected at Gadat, Gamu-Gofa (5 Gofa), Ethiopia, on 31 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 733). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann listed as his type a male in the Rothschild Collection collected at Gadat on 31 January 1901. There were two such specimens, but Hartert (1920: 432), in listing types in the Rothschild Collection, gave Neumann’s unique field number of the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Neumann (1908: 60) gave the range of erlangeri as Shoa, Harar, Arussi mountains and the Omo Region. Paralectotypes in AMNH are: AMNH 699578 (Neumann no. 583), male, collected at Gardula, on 13 January 1901; AMNH 699579 (729), male, collected at Gadat, Gamu-Gofa, 31 January 1901; AMNH 699581 (404), female, Alata, Sidamo, 13 December 1900; AMNH 699582 (397), male, Habela, Sidamo, 12 December 1900. Earlier, these specimens were all listed as Z. p. poliogastrus by Neumann (1906: 241–242). Gadat is shown on the map in Neumann (1902c) at ca. 06.20N, 36.50E. 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 page 43