Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler

SCI Name:  Napothera epilepidota
Protonym:  Myiothera epilepidota Pl.Col. livr.74[=75] pl.448 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Napothera
Taxonomy Code:  eywbab1
Type Locality:  Java and Sumatra ; restricted to Java, by Hartert, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 565.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1828
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

NAPOTHERA
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Eye-browed Wren-babbler N. epilepidota) Gr. ναπος napos  ravine, gully  < ναπη napē  dell; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "Hier von Java ein neuer Myophoneus - Napothera nenne ich ein Geschlecht, gegen welches Niemand etwas wird sagen können und wofür ich als typus Myothera lepidocephala Kuhl nenne." (Boie 1832) (nom. nud.); "NAPOTHERA, Boie (1835).  Myiothera, Temm.  N. epilepidota (Temm.), Boie. Pl. col. 448. f. 2." (G. Gray 1842).
Var. Nopothera.
Synon. Corythocichla, Lanioturdinus, Turdinulus.

epilepidota
Gr. επι epi  excessively; λεπιδωτος lepidōtos  scaly  < λεπις lepis, λεπιδος lepidos  scale, flake  < λεπω lepō  to peel.

SUBSPECIES

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (guttaticollis)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota guttaticollis
guttaticollis
L. guttatus spotted  < gutta  drop, spot; Mod. L. -collis -throated, -necked < L. collum neck.

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (roberti)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota roberti
roberti
• Robert Owen (1838-1880) English engineer, landowner in Guatemala (Paul Scofield in litt.); "Owen's Sabre-wing  ... It was collected in the Vera Paz mountains of Central America by Mr. Robert Owen, after whom it has been named" (Gould 1861) (subsp. Campylopterus cuvierii).
• Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) US ornithologist, Smithsonian Curator of Birds 1880-1929 (syn. Cantorchilus modestus).
• Alphonse Robert (fl. 1903) French botanist, collector in Madagascar 1894-1896, Brazil and Paraguay 1901-1903 (Conopophaga, ‡Hovacrex).
• Maj. Robert Alexander (1873-1928) brother of British explorer Capt. Boyd Alexander (Cossyphicula).
• Robert Hamilton Mathews (1841-1918) Australian surveyor, anthropologist, ethnologist, father of ornithologist Gregory M. Mathews (syn. Cygnus atratus, syn. Zapornia tabuensis).
• Frederick William Robert (fl. 1895) Australian surveyor in Indian Survey Dept. 1875-1895, mountaineer (subsp. Napothera epilepidota, Stachyris).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (bakeri)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota bakeri
bakeri
● Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864-1944) British ornithologist, oologist, collector, Indian Police 1883-1912 (subsp. Cuculus canorus, syn. Garrulax monileger stuarti, subsp. Liocichla phoenicea, syn. Lonchura malacca (ex Munia malacca orientalis Baker, 1925), subsp. Napothera epilepidota, syn. Pericrocotus flammeus fraterculus, subsp. Polyplectron bicalcaratum, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, Psittiparus, syn. Thalasseus bergii velox, subsp. Tachymarptis melba, syn. Turdinus macrodactylus, Yuhina, subsp. Zapornia fusca).
● Dr John Randal Baker (1900-1984) British scientist, cytologist, collector in the New Hebrides 1922-1923, 1927 (Ducula).
● Dr Allan John Baker (1943-2014) New Zealand/Canadian ornithologist (subsp. Fringilla coelebs).
● George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937) US banker, collector, trustee of the AMNH (Sericulus).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (davisoni)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota davisoni
davisoni
William Ruxton Davison (1850-1893) British field-ornithologist, collector for A. C. Hume in Tenasserim, Curator of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1887-1893 (subsp. Alcippe poioicephala, subsp. Geokichla sibirica, subsp. Hemixos flavala, syn. Hydrornis caeruleus, subsp. Lalage nigra, Leioptila, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, subsp. Phylloscopus montis, syn. Phylloscopus intensior muleyitensis, Pseudibis, subsp. Psilopogon asiaticus, Pycnonotus, subsp. Spilornis cheela, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (amyae)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota amyae
amyae
Amy Stevens née Ellis (1881-1956) wife of British explorer Herbert Stevens (subsp. Acrocephalus stentoreus, subsp. Napothera epilepidota).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (delacouri)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota delacouri
delacouri
Dr Jean Théodore Delacour (1890-1985) French ornithologist, aviculturalist, explorer in Indochina 1923-1939 and Madagascar 1929, conservationist, collector (syn. Caprimulgus manillensis, subsp. Euplectes progne, subsp. Glaucidium cuculoides, syn. Lanius collurioides nigricapillus, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, subsp. Neomixis viridis, subsp. Picoides canicapillus, subsp. Prinia flaviventris, subsp. Pteruthius rufiventer, syn. Saxicola maurus stejnegeri, syn. Schoeniparus cinereus, syn. Sitta nagaensis, subsp. Smithornis capensis, subsp. Treron sphenurus, syn. Yuhina diademata).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (hainana)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota hainana
hainana / hainanensis / hainanum / hainanus
Hainan I., China.

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (clara)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota clara
clara
L. clarus  distinct, clear.
● Clara Stein (fl. 1944) taxidermist, wife of German zoologist Dr Georg H. W. Stein (subsp. Eulacestoma nigropectus, syn. Gennaeodryas placens).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (granti)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota granti
granti
● William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924) English ornithologist at BMNH 1882-1918 (subsp. Acanthisitta chloris, subsp. Accipiter nisus, subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, syn. Alopecoenas beccarii solomonensis, subsp. Camaroptera chloronota, Horizocerus, syn. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Melaenornis pallida parvus, subsp. Microptilotis mimikae, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, syn. Neocossyphus poensis praepectoralis, Ninox, syn. Oriolus szalayi, syn. Pellorneum ruficeps olivaceum, Penelope, subsp. Ptiloprora plumbea, Ptilopsis, subsp. Rhipidura rufifrons (ex Rhipidura harterti Ogilvie-Grant), subsp. Sericornis spilodera, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris, Sula).
● Capt. Claude Henry Baxter Grant (1878-1958) British ornithologist at BMNH 1898-1903, 1932-1958, in East Africa 1916-1932 (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Crithagra mozambica, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, syn. Malimbus malimbicus, subsp. Phoeniculus damarensis, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus minor, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, subsp. Treron delalandii).
● Lt.-Col. James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) British Army, explorer with Speke in East Africa 1860-1863 (syn. Guttera pucherani).
● Robert Grant (1854-1923) Scottish miner and immigrant to Australia 1879, taxidermist at Australian Mus. 1887-1917, collector, explorer (subsp. Paradisaea raggiana).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (diluta)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota diluta
diluta
L. dilutus  weak, diluted, resolved  < diluere  to dissolve  < dis  separately, apart; luere  to make good.
● ex “Héoro-taire bleu” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (?syn. Zosterops lateralis).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (mendeni)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota mendeni
mendeni
Johannes J. Menden (fl. 1939) Dutch naturalist, taxidermist, dealer, collector in the East Indies 1925-1939 (syn. Columba vitiensis halmaheira, subsp. Cyanoderma melanothorax, Geokichla, syn. Hemiprocne longipennis wallacii, syn. Napothera epilepidota diluta, Otus).

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (epilepidota)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota epilepidota
epilepidota
Gr. επι epi  excessively; λεπιδωτος lepidōtos  scaly  < λεπις lepis, λεπιδος lepidos  scale, flake  < λεπω lepō  to peel.

Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler (exsul)
SCI Name: Napothera epilepidota exsul
exsul
L. exsul  exile  < ex  out of; solum  country, land (i.e. remote, isolated, insular).