Mountain Black-eye

SCI Name:  Chlorocharis emiliae
Protonym:  Chlorocharis emiliae Ibis p.392
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Chlorocharis
Taxonomy Code:  mouble1
Type Locality:  Kinabalu, Borneo.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROCHARIS
(Zosteropidae; † Mountain Black-eye C. emiliae) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; χαρις kharis, χαριτος kharitos  grace, beauty  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; "CHLOROCHARIS, gen. n.  Genus simile generi "Cyanoderma" dicto, sed cauda magis quadrata nec rotundata.  The type is  13. CHLOROCHARIS EMILIÆ, sp. n.  ... General colour above light olive-green, the lesser and median coverts like the back; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers dusky blackish, edged with the same colour as the back, a little brighter and more olive-yellow on the primary-coverts and quills; crown of head dusky brown, washed with olive-green; the occiput and nape like the back; base of forehead washed with olive-yellow  ...  "I do not know well what to call this species, but it is most Finch-like in its ways. Found from 7000 to 12,000 feet."" (Sharpe 1888); "Chlorocharis Sharpe, 1888, Ibis, p. 392.  Type, by original designation, Chlorocharis emiliae Sharpe." (Mayr in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 325).

emiliae
● Emily Eliza Sharpe née Burrows (1843-1928) wife of British ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe (Chlorocharis, subsp. Nigrita canicapillus,  subsp. Tanysiptera galatea).
● Henriette Mathilde Maria Elisabeth Emilie Snethlage (1868-1929) German ornithologist, collector in Brazil 1905-1929, Director of the Goeldi Mus. 1914-1922 (subsp. Dysithamnus mentalis, subsp. Microrhopias quixensis).
● "Iodopleura Emiliæ. (Parzudaky.)"; lapsus for isabellae (des Murs 1849, Iconographie Ornithologique, pl. 68) (Iodopleura).
● Marie Antoinette Émilie Galichon née Tuffet (1802-1873) second wife of French art collector and historian Émile-Louis Étienne Galichon (d. 1873) (subsp. Phaethornis guy).
● Émilie Lapèyre-Bellair (or Lapère) (fl. 1845) wife of Capt. Jean Théophile Lapèyre-Bellair (1814-1852) French Army, collector in the Marquesas (syn. Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii).
● Émilie de Dalmas (b. 1886) daughter of French ornithologist Raymond Comte de Dalmas (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Tangara lavinia).

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Black-eye (emiliae)
SCI Name: Chlorocharis emiliae emiliae
emiliae
● Emily Eliza Sharpe née Burrows (1843-1928) wife of British ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe (Chlorocharis, subsp. Nigrita canicapillus,  subsp. Tanysiptera galatea).
● Henriette Mathilde Maria Elisabeth Emilie Snethlage (1868-1929) German ornithologist, collector in Brazil 1905-1929, Director of the Goeldi Mus. 1914-1922 (subsp. Dysithamnus mentalis, subsp. Microrhopias quixensis).
● "Iodopleura Emiliæ. (Parzudaky.)"; lapsus for isabellae (des Murs 1849, Iconographie Ornithologique, pl. 68) (Iodopleura).
● Marie Antoinette Émilie Galichon née Tuffet (1802-1873) second wife of French art collector and historian Émile-Louis Étienne Galichon (d. 1873) (subsp. Phaethornis guy).
● Émilie Lapèyre-Bellair (or Lapère) (fl. 1845) wife of Capt. Jean Théophile Lapèyre-Bellair (1814-1852) French Army, collector in the Marquesas (syn. Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii).
● Émilie de Dalmas (b. 1886) daughter of French ornithologist Raymond Comte de Dalmas (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Tangara lavinia).

Mountain Black-eye (trinitae)
SCI Name: Chlorocharis emiliae trinitae
trinitae
Trinity College, Cambridge University, who sponsored an expedition to North Borneo 1956 (subsp. Chlorocharis emiliae).

Mountain Black-eye (fusciceps)
SCI Name: Chlorocharis emiliae fusciceps
fusciceps
L. fuscus  dusky, brown; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Mountain Black-eye (moultoni)
SCI Name: Chlorocharis emiliae moultoni
moultoni
Maj. John Coney Moulton (1886-1926) British Army, ornithologist, entomolgist, Curator of Sarawak Mus. 1905-1915, Director of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1919-1923 (subsp. Chlorocharis emiliae, subsp. Malacopteron albogulare).