Gray-capped Warbler

SCI Name:  Eminia lepida
Protonym:  Eminia lepida Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1880) (1880), Pt4 p.625 pl.60 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Eminia
Taxonomy Code:  gycwar3
Type Locality:  Magungo, northern Uganda.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1881
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EMINIA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Grey-capped Warbler E. lepida) Mehmet Emin Bey, later Emin Pasha, the adopted name of Dr. Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer (1840-1892) German administrator in the Ottoman service, Pasha of Equatorial Province, Egyptian Sudan 1878-1889, physician, naturalist, collector, murdered by Arab slave-traders; "EMINIA, gen. nov. MALURINARUM.  Char. gen. Rostrum elongatum, gracile, rectum, integrum, carinatum; maxilla superior (culmen et commissura) subcurvata, gonyde parte apicali vix conspicue ascendente; nares in fossa majuscula positæ, longitudinales, apertæ; vibrissæ obsoletæ.  Alæ convexæ, breviusculæ, caudæ dimidium non attingentes, obtusæ; remige primo subspurio, 5-9. subæqualibus, cæteris longioribus.  Cauda subelongata, rotundata, mollis, rectricibus satis angustis.  Pedes magni; tarsis scutellatis; pollex præ cæteros robustus, ungue magno bene curvato armatus; digiti elongati, graciles.   3. EMINIA LEPIDA, n. sp.  ...   A very interesting new genus belonging to the Camaroptera group (Malurinæ, Sundev.), which I dedicate to Dr. Emin Bey, who has added so much to our knowledge of the zoology of these distant regions." (Hartlaub 1881); "Eminia Hartlaub, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1880), p. 625. Type, by monotypy, Eminia lepida Hartlaub." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 218).

lepida
L. lepidus  charming, elegant  < lepos, leporis  charm.