Zosteropidae

Oreosterops pinaiae
Stresemann, 1912: 5

Current name:
Lophozosterops pinaiae

Grey-hooded White-eye
1 paratype

Paratype: ZMA 4720, female, Gunung Sofia (4000', Seram, Molucca Is., Indonesia), collected 25 Jun 1911 by E. Stresemann (coll. nr. 666), ex Snouckaert coll.; wing 75, tail 49, bill to skull 18.2, tarsus 24.4, weight 28 g.

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Additional information
The holotype is an adult male in the AMNH (coll. nr. 701424), taken on Gunung Pinaia (= Binaia, 7500') on 17 Aug 1911 by E. Stresemann (Freiburger Molukken Expedition coll. nr. 877). According to Stresemann (1912; 1914, p. 138), the original series contained 7 birds: a pair from Gunung Sofia (4000', 13 Jun 1911), a pair from the same site and altitude taken 25 Jun 1911, a pair from Gunung Pinaia (7000', 15 Aug), and a male from this latter site at 7500' collected 17 Aug; the latter bird is the holotype. The female of the pair from 25 Jun is in the ZMA. Though included in Lophozosterops by Mees (1969) in his important review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae, pinaiae looks rather different from specimens of L. javanica and L. squamiceps in the ZMA, apparently warranting a position in a separate genus; sometimes named Apoia pinaiae, but the type species of this genus (A. goodfellowi from the Philippines) was not examined, and thus it is not known whether this combination is valid. When looking at plate 52 in Coates & Bishop (1997), one gets the impression that the genus Lophozosterops is a dustbin of highly variable zosteropid forms. Our specimen of pinaiae is distinctly darker grey on the side of head, side of breast, and flanks than the bird on plate 52, shows restricted buff instead of extensive white feathering at the bill-base, and has a broader and more sharply contrasting white eye-ring.

Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.

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