Brown Sicklebill

SCI Name:  Epimachus meyeri
Protonym:  Epimachus Meyeri Zeitsch.ges.Orn. 2 p.380
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Epimachus
Taxonomy Code:  brosic1
Type Locality:  Hufeisengebirge, southeastern New Guinea.
Author:  Finsch & Meyer
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EPIMACHUS
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Black Sicklebill E. fastosus) Gr. επιμαχος epimakhos  equipped for battle  < επιμαχεω epimakheō  to defend  < μαχομαι makhomai  to fight (I cannot find the bird from the Indies referred to by Cuvier) (cf. "Eπι, to, μαχη, battle, (an unmeaning name.)" (Ashmolean 1836)); "LES ÉPIMAQUES (3). (EPIMACHUS. Cuv.)  Ont, avec le bec des huppes et des promerops, des plumes écailleuses ou veloutées, qui leur recouvrent une partie des narines, comme dans les oiseaux de paradis; aussi viennent-ils du même pays, et brillant-il de même par l'éclat de leur plumage. Leurs plumes des flancs sont aussi plus ou moins prolongés dans les mâles  ... L'Epimaque à paremens frisés. (Upupa magna. Gm.  Up. Superba Lath.) Enl. 639.  ...  L'Epimaque Proméfil.  ...   (3) EPIMACHUS, nom grec d'un très-bel oiseau des Indes, d'espèce indéterminée." (Cuvier 1816); "Epimachus Cuvier, 1817, Règne Anim., 1 (Dec. 1816), p. 407. Type, by monotypy, Upupa magna Gmelin = Promerops fastuosus Hermann." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 190). Cracraft 1992, considered this genus to consist of six phylogenetic species.   
Synon. Cinnamolegus.

meyeri / meyerianus / meyerii
● Dr Aron Baruch Meyer (known as Adolf Bernhard Meyer) (1840-1911) German physician, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1870-1873, Director of Royal Mus. Dresden 1874-1906, zoologist, anthropologist (Accipiter, Chalcites (ex Chrysococcyx splendidus Mayer, 1874), syn. Cinnyris jugularis plateni, Edolisoma, Epimachus, syn. Leptocoma sericea porphyrolaema (ex Hermotimia porphyrolaema scapulata Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1896), subsp. Myzomela nigrita, Pachycephala (ex Pachycephala affinis Meyer, 1884), Philemon (ex Tropidorhynchus inornatus Meyer, 1875), subsp. Pitohui kirhocephalus, subsp. Pucrasia macrolopha, syn. Rhipidura atra, subsp. Tanysiptera galatea, subsp. Timeliopsis fulvigula, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, subsp. Xanthotis flaviventer (ex Ptilotis pyrrhotis Meyer, 1875)).
● Dr Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836) German botanist, ornithologist, collector (syn. Limosa lapponica, Poicephalus).
● Fr. P. Rudolf Otto Maria Meyer (1877-1937) German missionary to the Bismarck Archipelago 1902-1937 (syn. Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae, subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis, subsp. Ptilinopus solomonensis).

SUBSPECIES

Brown Sicklebill (meyeri)
SCI Name: Epimachus meyeri meyeri
meyeri / meyerianus / meyerii
● Dr Aron Baruch Meyer (known as Adolf Bernhard Meyer) (1840-1911) German physician, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1870-1873, Director of Royal Mus. Dresden 1874-1906, zoologist, anthropologist (Accipiter, Chalcites (ex Chrysococcyx splendidus Mayer, 1874), syn. Cinnyris jugularis plateni, Edolisoma, Epimachus, syn. Leptocoma sericea porphyrolaema (ex Hermotimia porphyrolaema scapulata Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1896), subsp. Myzomela nigrita, Pachycephala (ex Pachycephala affinis Meyer, 1884), Philemon (ex Tropidorhynchus inornatus Meyer, 1875), subsp. Pitohui kirhocephalus, subsp. Pucrasia macrolopha, syn. Rhipidura atra, subsp. Tanysiptera galatea, subsp. Timeliopsis fulvigula, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, subsp. Xanthotis flaviventer (ex Ptilotis pyrrhotis Meyer, 1875)).
● Dr Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836) German botanist, ornithologist, collector (syn. Limosa lapponica, Poicephalus).
● Fr. P. Rudolf Otto Maria Meyer (1877-1937) German missionary to the Bismarck Archipelago 1902-1937 (syn. Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae, subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis, subsp. Ptilinopus solomonensis).

Brown Sicklebill (bloodi)
SCI Name: Epimachus meyeri bloodi
bloodi
Maj. Neptune Newcombe Beresford Lloyd Blood (b. 1907) Australian Army, New Guinea police 1943, District Commissioner at Rabaul, New Britain 1958, botanist (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Epimachus meyeri, syn. Oreocharis arfaki, Paradisaea raggiana x Paradisaea rudolphi).

Brown Sicklebill (albicans)
SCI Name: Epimachus meyeri albicans
albicans
L. albicans, albicantis  whitish, whitening  < albicare  to whiten  <  albus white.
● ex “Lanarius” of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, “Lanarius albicans” of Brisson 1760, and “White Lanner” of Latham 1781 (syn. Circus cyaneus).