Brown Gerygone

SCI Name:  Gerygone mouki
Protonym:  Gerygone laevigaster mouki Novit.Zool. 18 p.310
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Gerygone
Taxonomy Code:  broger1
Type Locality:  Cairns, northern Queensland.
Author:  Mathews
Publish Year:  1912
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GERYGONE
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ White-throated Gerygone G. olivacea) Gr. γηρυγονος gērugonos  echoes  < γηρυω gēruō  to sing; γονη gonē  offspring, child; "I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain" (Gould 1865); "These birds having been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone" (Gould 1841); "Gerygone Gould, 1841, in G. Grey, Journ. Two Exped. Discovery Northwest Western Australia, 2, p. 417, note. New name for Psilopus Gould, 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Meigen, 1824." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 444).  
Var. Gerigone, Gerypont.
Synon. Ethelornis, Hapolorhynchus, Leptotodus, Maorigerygone, Ostiarius, Pseudogerygone, Psilopus, Royigerygone, Tinamulus, Wilsonavis.

mouki
Etymology undiscovered; perhaps an Austraboriginal name or one of Mathews’s nonsense-names (see zanda); "I do not follow the suggestion that mouki originates from an Australian language, and I speculate that Mathews commemorated someone with the uncommon personal name Mouk" (Nash 2014 per Björn Bergenholtz).
● "670A. Gerygone laevigaster mouki subsp. n.  Eastern Buff-breasted Flyeater.  Mathews, Handlist No. 462 (pars).  Differs from G. l. mastersi in having the base of the tail-feathers, grey not black.  Type: Cairns, North Queensland, No. 9540." (Mathews 1912, Novitates Zool., 18 (1911), 310) (Gerygone).
● "1345. Zonaeginthus castanotis mouki subsp. n.  Queensland Chestnut-eared Finch.  Mathews, Handlist No. 831 (pars).  Differs from Z. c. castanotis in the under-surface coloration, having more black on the breast and paler on the flanks.  Type: Queensland (Rockhampton), No. 7334." ( Mathews 1912, Novitates Zool., 18 (1911), 427) (syn. Taeniopygia castanotis).

SUBSPECIES

Brown Gerygone (mouki)
SCI Name: Gerygone mouki mouki
mouki
Etymology undiscovered; perhaps an Austraboriginal name or one of Mathews’s nonsense-names (see zanda); "I do not follow the suggestion that mouki originates from an Australian language, and I speculate that Mathews commemorated someone with the uncommon personal name Mouk" (Nash 2014 per Björn Bergenholtz).
● "670A. Gerygone laevigaster mouki subsp. n.  Eastern Buff-breasted Flyeater.  Mathews, Handlist No. 462 (pars).  Differs from G. l. mastersi in having the base of the tail-feathers, grey not black.  Type: Cairns, North Queensland, No. 9540." (Mathews 1912, Novitates Zool., 18 (1911), 310) (Gerygone).
● "1345. Zonaeginthus castanotis mouki subsp. n.  Queensland Chestnut-eared Finch.  Mathews, Handlist No. 831 (pars).  Differs from Z. c. castanotis in the under-surface coloration, having more black on the breast and paler on the flanks.  Type: Queensland (Rockhampton), No. 7334." ( Mathews 1912, Novitates Zool., 18 (1911), 427) (syn. Taeniopygia castanotis).

Brown Gerygone (amalia)
SCI Name: Gerygone mouki amalia
amalia
Amalie Concordia Dietrich née Nelle (1822-1891) German naturalist, collector, plant-hunter in Australia and the Pacific (subsp. Gerygone mouki).

Brown Gerygone (richmondi)
SCI Name: Gerygone mouki richmondi
richmondi
● Dr Charles Wallace Richmond (1868-1932) US ornithologist, bibliographer, nomenclaturist (subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, syn. Aplonis panayensis heterochlora, subsp. Arremonops conirostris, subsp. Chaetura vauxi, subsp. Hypothymis azurea, syn. Leucippus fallax, syn. Meleagris californicus, subsp. Oriolus chinensis, syn. Pachyramphus aglaiae albiventris, syn. Rhinomyias umbratilis, subsp. Spilornis cheela, syn. Thalassarche melanophris, subsp. Zosterops nigrorum).
● Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia (subsp. Gerygone mouki, syn. Stipiturus malachurus).