Gray-headed Broadbill

SCI Name:  Smithornis sharpei
Protonym:  Smithornis sharpei Bull.Br.Orn.Club 13 p.34
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Calyptomenidae / Smithornis
Taxonomy Code:  gyhbro1
Type Locality:  Mt. Ysabel, 4000 feet, Fernando Po. Col. pi., Ibis, 1903, pi. 7.
Author:  Alexander
Publish Year:  1903
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SMITHORNIS
(Calyptomenidae; Ϯ African Broadbill S. capensis) Sir Andrew Smith (1797-1872) Scottish surgeon, zoologist, ethnologist, explorer in South Africa, first Superintendent of Cape Town Mus. 1825, Assistant/ Director-Gen. of Army Medical Services 1845-1858; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος  ornithos  bird; "*688. Smithornis, Bp. (Platyrhynchus, Smith.) Rostrum valde depressum, culmine distincto, apice subadunco!  Africa.  1.   PLATYRHYNCHUS capensis, Smith. Ill. S. Afr. Zool. Av. t. 27. a. mas. b. faem." (Bonaparte 1850); "Smithornis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, p. 322. Type, by monotypy, Platyrhynchus capensis A. Smith." (Peters 1951, VII, 3).
Synon. Phrynorhamphus.

sharpei
Dr Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) British ornithologist at BMNH 1872-1909, founder member of BOC 1892 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aegithalos bonvaloti, subsp. Anthoscopus sylviella, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, subsp. Caprimulgus tristigma, syn. Ceyx erithaca, syn. Chrysococcyx cupreus, subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Columba delegorguei, syn. Coracias naevius, subsp. Dactylortyx thoracicus, subsp. Dicrurus ludwigii, syn. Edolisoma incertum, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis saturatior, Euchrepomis, subsp. Eulabeornis castaneoventris, syn. Euschistospiza dybowskii, syn. Hypotaenidia philippensis, Lalage, syn. Laterallus spilonotus, syn. Lophura nycthemera lineata, Macronyx, subsp. Melanospiza bicolor, subsp. Meliphaga aruensis, syn. Merops pusillus cyanostictus, Monticola, syn. Muscicapa boehmi, syn. Myzomela melanocephala, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis, syn. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Phyllastrephus strepitans, syn. Picumnus albosquamatus guttifer, Picus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, syn. Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa, Sheppardia, subsp. Sicalis uropigyalis, Smithornis, syn. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Sporophila morelleti, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, subsp. Telacanthura ussheri, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Trochalopteron milnei, Turdoides, syn. Zosterops atrifrons) (see sharpii).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-headed Broadbill (Zenker's)
SCI Name: Smithornis sharpei zenkeri
zenkeri / zenkerianus
Georg August Zenker (1855-1922) German botanist, explorer, collector, settler in the Cameroons 1889-1922 (subsp. Accipiter erythropus, subsp. Agapornis swindernianus, subsp. Anthus leucophrys, syn. Lanius mackinnoni, syn. Macrosphenus concolor, Melignomon, syn. Neocossyphus poensis, syn. Phyllastrephus albigularis, subsp. Sarothrura pulchra, subsp. Smithornis sharpei, syn. Stizorhina finschi, subsp. Tauraco persa).

Gray-headed Broadbill (Sharpe's)
SCI Name: Smithornis sharpei sharpei
sharpei
Dr Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) British ornithologist at BMNH 1872-1909, founder member of BOC 1892 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aegithalos bonvaloti, subsp. Anthoscopus sylviella, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, subsp. Caprimulgus tristigma, syn. Ceyx erithaca, syn. Chrysococcyx cupreus, subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Columba delegorguei, syn. Coracias naevius, subsp. Dactylortyx thoracicus, subsp. Dicrurus ludwigii, syn. Edolisoma incertum, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis saturatior, Euchrepomis, subsp. Eulabeornis castaneoventris, syn. Euschistospiza dybowskii, syn. Hypotaenidia philippensis, Lalage, syn. Laterallus spilonotus, syn. Lophura nycthemera lineata, Macronyx, subsp. Melanospiza bicolor, subsp. Meliphaga aruensis, syn. Merops pusillus cyanostictus, Monticola, syn. Muscicapa boehmi, syn. Myzomela melanocephala, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis, syn. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Phyllastrephus strepitans, syn. Picumnus albosquamatus guttifer, Picus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, syn. Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa, Sheppardia, subsp. Sicalis uropigyalis, Smithornis, syn. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Sporophila morelleti, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, subsp. Telacanthura ussheri, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Trochalopteron milnei, Turdoides, syn. Zosterops atrifrons) (see sharpii).

Gray-headed Broadbill (Gray-headed)
SCI Name: Smithornis sharpei eurylaemus
eurylaemus
Gr. ευρυς eurus  broad; λαιμος laimos  throat; "♂ ähnlich dem S. s. sharpei von Fernando Po, mit welcher Form S. s. zenkeri von Kamerun und Spanisch Benito zusammenfallen soll, aber kleiner, mit erheblich kleinerem, besonders kürzeren Schnabel" (Neumann 1923) (subsp. Smithornis sharpei).