Flores White-eye

SCI Name:  Heleia crassirostris
Protonym:  Zosterops crassirostris Novit.Zool. 4 p.172 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Heleia
Taxonomy Code:  flowhe1
Type Locality:  southern Flores.
Author:  Hartert, E
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HELEIA
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Timor Heleia H. muelleri) Gr. ελεια eleia  small bird, otherwise unidentified, mentioned by Callimachus; "b. Heleia nob.  Rostrum validum. Pedes robusti. Ptilosis maculata. Cauda longa rotundata.   45. H. Mülleri Nob.  ...  Timor.  Entschieden aberrante Form.  Schnabel und Beine sehr kräftig.  Die Brust erscheint am stärksten gefleckt.  Schnabel-färbung heller als bei den typischen Arten.  ...  Syn. Zosterops frontalis Müll. in Mus. Lugdun." (Hartlaub 1865); "Heleia Hartlaub, 1865, Journ. f. Orn., 13, p. 26. Type, by monotypy, H. Mülleri Hartlaub." (Mayr in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 324). This bird was formerly known as the Spot-breasted White-eye.
Var. Helia.
Synon. Apoia, Lophozosterops, Oculocincta, Pseudozosterops.

crassirostra / crassirostre / crassirostris
L. crassus  thick, heavy; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Coucou à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 214 (syn. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (syn. Galerida magnirostris).
● ex “Thick-billed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Oryzoborus).
● ex “Thick-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Turnagra capensis).