Brown Woodland-Warbler

SCI Name:  Phylloscopus umbrovirens
Protonym:  Sylvia (Ficedula) umbrovirens NeueWirbelth.Vog. p.112
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Phylloscopidae / Phylloscopus
Taxonomy Code:  brwwar1
Type Locality:  Semien Province, Abyssinia.
Author:  Rüppell
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PHYLLOSCOPUS
(Phylloscopidae; Ϯ Willow Warbler P. trochilus) Gr. φυλλον phullon  leaf; σκοπος skopos  seeker  < σκοπεω skopeō  to examine; "VI. Fam. Sylviadae Vigors. ¹  ...  Phylloscopus: Sylv. trochilus Lath. u.v.a.   ...   ¹ Von der Lebensweise dieser Vögel weiß man so viel, daß sie blühende Gewächse aufsuchen und vom Blumensaste, gewiß auch von Insecten leben. Von den Trochiliden unterscheiden sie sich hauptsächlich durch die Bildung des Schwanzes, der überhaupt schwächer, und die größere Länge der Schwungfedern, wovon man auf einen ganz verschiedenen Flug schließen darf." (Boie 1826); "Phylloscopus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 972. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla trochilus Linnaeus." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 221).
Var. Blythoscopus.
Synon. Abrornis, Acanthopneuste, Asilus, Cryptigata, Cryptolopha, Cuculis, Culicipeta, Fanissa, Ficaria, Herbivocula, Mochthopoeus, Neornis, Oreopneuste, Phaeorhadina, Philomela, Phyllobasileus, Phyllopneuste, Pindalus, Pycnosphrys, Reguloides, Rhadina, Seicercus, Sibilatrix, Solifer, Sylvicola, Trocheligone, Trochilus, Zelica.

umbrovirens
Mod. L. umbrovirens  dusky-green, olive-brown  < L. umbra  darkness; virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.

SUBSPECIES

Brown Woodland-Warbler (yemenensis)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens yemenensis
yemenensis / yemensis
Yemen.

Brown Woodland-Warbler (umbrovirens)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens umbrovirens
umbrovirens
Mod. L. umbrovirens  dusky-green, olive-brown  < L. umbra  darkness; virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.

Brown Woodland-Warbler (omoensis)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens omoensis
omo / omoensis
Omo River, southwestern Ethiopia.

Brown Woodland-Warbler (williamsi)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens williamsi
williamsi
● John George Williams (1913-1997) British ornithologist, Curator of Coryndon Mus., Nairobi (subsp. Calandrella cinerea, syn. Geokichla piaggiae tanganjicae, Mirafra, subsp. Phylloscopus umbrovirens, syn. Stelgidocichla latirostris).
● Maj. Frederic Thesiger Williams (1862-1902) British Army in India and Burma (subsp. Lophura horsfieldii).
● J. Williams (fl. 1807) English naturalist (syn. Phalaropus lobatus).

Brown Woodland-Warbler (mackenzianus)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens mackenzianus
mackenziana / mackenzianus
Sir George Sutherland Mackenzie (1844-1910) British Administrator of British East Africa Co. 1888-1891, businessman, explorer (subsp. Phylloscopus umbrovirens).

Brown Woodland-Warbler (dorcadichroa)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens dorcadichroa
dorcadichroa / dorcadichrous
Gr. δορκας dorkas, δορκαδος dorkados  roe deer, gazelle; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

Brown Woodland-Warbler (alpinus)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens alpinus
alpina / alpinum / alpinus
L. alpinus  alpine, of high mountains, of the Alps  < alpes or alpis  high mountains, Alps.
● "78. TRINGA.  ...  alpina.  7. T. testaceo-fusca, pectore nigricante, rectricibus cinereo-albidis, pedibus fuscescentibus.  Habitat in Lapponia. Adlerheim.  Magnitudo Sturni; Abdomen album." (Linnaeus 1758) (Calidris).
● ex “Fauvette des Alpes” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 668, fig. 2, and “Collared Stare” and “Alpine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Prunella collaris).
● ex “Choucas des Alpes” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Pyrrhocorax graculus).

Brown Woodland-Warbler (wilhelmi)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens wilhelmi
wilhelmi
Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Prince of Sweden and Norway and Duke of Södermanland (1884-1965) (subsp. Phylloscopus umbrovirens).

Brown Woodland-Warbler (fugglescouchmani)
SCI Name: Phylloscopus umbrovirens fugglescouchmani
fugglescouchmani
Norman Robin Fuggles-Couchman (1907-1994) British Commissioner for Agriculture in Tanganyika 1930-1962, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, subsp. Phylloscopus umbrovirens).