Olivaceous Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Fraseria olivascens
Protonym:  Parisoma olivascens Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 11 p.52
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Fraseria
Taxonomy Code:  olifly1
Type Locality:  Camma River, Western Africa = Sette Cama, Gabon.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

FRASERIA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ African Forest Flycatcher F. ocreata) Louis Fraser (?1819-?1883) English zoologist, Curator of ZSL Museum 1832-1846, Curator of Knowsley Collection 1848-1851, Vice-Consul to Dahomey 1851-1853, collector in Nigeria 1841-1842, Ecuador 1857, California 1860, and Florida 1883. "L'africaine Tephr. ochreata, Strickland, à queue arrondie, à acrotarses d'une seule pièce, admirablement figurée par Fraser dans sa Zoologie typique, méritait un genre à part que nous établissons sous le nom de Fraseria, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); Heine and Reichenow, 1890, Nomencl. Musei Heineani Ornith., p. 41, regarded Fraseria as a barbarous name, but, uncharacteristically, did not offer any alternative or replacement; "Fraseria Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. xxxviii, pp. 386, 536, 1854.  Type by monotypy, Tephrodornis ocreatus Strickland." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 411).
Synon. Apatema, Chapinia, Chapinornis, Cichlomyia, Eomelpusa, Eucnemidea, Hypodes, Myioparus.

olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

SUBSPECIES

Olivaceous Flycatcher (Olivaceous)
SCI Name: Fraseria olivascens olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

Olivaceous Flycatcher (Mt. Nimba)
SCI Name: Fraseria olivascens nimbae
nimbae
Mt. Nimba, Guinea/Liberia/Ivory Coast.