Graceful Prinia

SCI Name:  Prinia gracilis
Protonym:  S[ylvia]. gracilis Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.34
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Prinia
Taxonomy Code:  grapri1
Type Locality:  Nubia.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRINIA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-winged Prinia P. familiaris) Javanese name Prinya for the Bar-winged Prinia; "Gen. 33. PRINIA.  Rostrum mediocre, rectum, basi latiusculum, ultra nares sensim attenuatum, apice validiusculo.  Maxilla basi recta, apice levissime arcuata: culmine inter nares carinato, deinde rotundato, extremitate obsolete emarginato.  Mandibula recta, ultra medium levissime sursum inclinata.  Nares basales, magnæ, in fovea oblonga antice angustiore positæ, membrana tectæ, parte inferiore rima longitudinale apertæ.  Alæ rotundatæ. Remiges: 1 abrupte, 2 et 3 gradatim breviores, reliquæ subæquales, 3—7 externe tenuiter emarginatæ.  Cauda elongata cuneata.  Pedes elongati.  Digitus medius longiusculus cum exteriore basi coalitus.  Hallux validiusculus medio antico major validior.   This genus is allied to the former [Pomatorhinus], but it differs in the comparative straightness of the bill and its more gradual tapering to the point; it is also destitute of the horny covering of the nares. It holds an immediate place between Pomatorhinus and Nectarinia. In the situation of the nares it agrees with the latter, but the aperture is much larger and of a different form. The elevation of the tarsi constitutes a peculiar character.    Spec. 1. Prinia familiaris.   ...   Prinya Javanis." (Horsfield 1821); "Prinia Horsfield, 1821, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, p. 165. Type, by monotypy, Prinia familiaris Horsfield." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 128).   
Var. Primia, Prinea.   
Synon. Blanfordius, Burnesia, Daseocharis, Decurus, Drymoica, Drymoipus, Dybowskia, Franklinia, Heliolais, Herpystera, Suya, Urorhipis.

prinia
"ORTOTOME PRINIE.   ORTHOTOMUS PRINIA.  TEMM.   C'EST ici l'espèce que M. Horsfield indique, dans son catalogue des oiseaux de Java, sous le nom de Prinia familiaris, et dont il publie une figure, peu soignée pour ce qui concerne la forme du bec, dans ces Illustrations de Java; c'est aussi la Prinya des Malais." (Temminck 1836) (subsp. Prinia familiaris).

gracilis
L. gracilis or gracilus  slender, elegant, slim, thin.
● “has many characters in common with the Ptilotis chrysotis ... and the Ptilotis similis ... but it differs from both in the greater slenderness of its form, in its diminutive size, and, especially from the former, in the uniform colouring of its throat and abdomen” (Gould 1866) (Microptilotis).
● ex “Gracile Goatsucker” of Latham 1801 (syn. Podargus strigoides).

SUBSPECIES

Graceful Prinia (akyildizi)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis akyildizi
akyildizi
Zubeyir Akyildiz (fl. 1960) Turkish forestry engineer (subsp. Prinia gracilis).

Graceful Prinia (irakensis)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis irakensis
irakensis
Iraq or Irak.

Graceful Prinia (palaestinae)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis palaestinae
palaestinae
L. Palaestina, Palaestinae Palestine.

Graceful Prinia (deltae)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis deltae
deltae
L. Delta Nile delta.

Graceful Prinia (gracilis)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis gracilis
gracilis
L. gracilis or gracilus  slender, elegant, slim, thin.
● “has many characters in common with the Ptilotis chrysotis ... and the Ptilotis similis ... but it differs from both in the greater slenderness of its form, in its diminutive size, and, especially from the former, in the uniform colouring of its throat and abdomen” (Gould 1866) (Microptilotis).
● ex “Gracile Goatsucker” of Latham 1801 (syn. Podargus strigoides).

Graceful Prinia (natronensis)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis natronensis
natronensis
Wadi el Natron (= Wadi Natrun), Egypt.

Graceful Prinia (yemenensis)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis yemenensis
yemenensis / yemensis
Yemen.

Graceful Prinia (carlo)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis carlo
carlo
Victor Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Erlanger (called Carlo von Erlanger) (1872-1904) German naturalist, collector in tropical Africa 1900-1901 (syn. Apus apus, syn. Falco tinnunculus, syn. Lagonosticta senegala brunneiceps, subsp. Prinia gracilis).

Graceful Prinia (hufufae)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis hufufae
hufufae
Hufuf, Hasa, eastern Arabia.

Graceful Prinia (carpenteri)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis carpenteri
carpenteri
William Dorr Carpenter (1879-1958) US naturalist, collector (subsp. Centropus viridis, subsp. Prinia gracilis).

Graceful Prinia (lepida)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis lepida
lepida
L. lepidus  charming, elegant  < lepos, leporis  charm.

Graceful Prinia (stevensi)
SCI Name: Prinia gracilis stevensi
stevensi
Herbert Stevens (1877-1964) British tea planter in India, collector, explorer in Sikkim 1923, Indochina 1923-1924, and New Guinea 1932-1933 (subsp. Acrocephalus concinens, syn. Cormobates placens meridionalis, syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus hopwoodi, syn. Microptilotis cinereifrons, subsp. Prinia gracilis, subsp. Schoeniparus rufogularis, subsp. Turdinus brevicaudatus).