Olive Straightbill

SCI Name:  Timeliopsis fulvigula
Protonym:  Euthyrhynchus fulvigula Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 4 p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Timeliopsis
Taxonomy Code:  olistr1
Type Locality:  Arfak Mountains, New Guinea.
Author:  Schlegel
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TIMELIOPSIS
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Tawny Straightbill T. griseigula) Genus Timelia Sundevall, 1872, babbler; Gr. οψις opsis  appearance; "TIMELIOPSIS novum genus ex familia Timeliidarum; rostrum fere rectum, capite paullo brevius, subacutum vel acutum, naribus linearibus, suboperculatis, in foveis basalibus positis; alae et cauda rotundatae, medicres; pedes mediocres; habitus fere medius inter Pomatorhinum isidorii et Strachyrhim pyropa, Hodgs.   Typus:  Sp. 50. Timeliopsis trachycoma, nov. sp.  ...  Questa specie e la seguente sono notevoli per le piume brevi e rigide della parte anteriore del pileo e specialmente della fronte." (Salvadori 1875); "Timeliopsis Salvadori, 1876, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 7 (1875), p. 963. Type, by original designation, Timeliopsis trachycoma Salvadori = Euthyrhynchus griseigula Schlegel." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 338).
Synon. Euthyrhynchus.

fulvigula
L. fulvus brown, tawny; gula throat.

SUBSPECIES

Olive Straightbill (fulvigula)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis fulvigula fulvigula
fulvigula
L. fulvus brown, tawny; gula throat.

Olive Straightbill (montana)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis fulvigula montana
montana
L. montanus of the mountains, mountain-, mountaineer < mons, montis mountain.
● ex “Lesser Pied Mountain Finch” or “Brambling” of Willughby 1676, and Morton 1712, and “Mountain Bunting” of Latham 1783 (syn. Fringilla montifringilla).
● Jamaica; ex “Mountain Partridge” of Sloane 1725, and “Columba minor fulva” of Edwards 1751 (Geotrygon).
● Namaqualand; ex “Traquet Montagnard” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 184, fig. 2 (syn. Oenanthe monticola).
● ex “Perdrix de montagne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 136 (syn. Perdix perdix).
● Montana, USA (subsp. Pinicola enucleator).
● ex “Mountain Owl” of Latham 1787 (syn. Strix nebulosa).
● ex “Berg-gans” of Kolbe 1719, and “Mountain Goose” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Tadorna cana).

Olive Straightbill (meyeri)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis fulvigula meyeri
meyeri / meyerianus / meyerii
● Dr Aron Baruch Meyer (known as Adolf Bernhard Meyer) (1840-1911) German physician, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1870-1873, Director of Royal Mus. Dresden 1874-1906, zoologist, anthropologist (Accipiter, Chalcites (ex Chrysococcyx splendidus Mayer, 1874), syn. Cinnyris jugularis plateni, Edolisoma, Epimachus, syn. Leptocoma sericea porphyrolaema (ex Hermotimia porphyrolaema scapulata Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1896), subsp. Myzomela nigrita, Pachycephala (ex Pachycephala affinis Meyer, 1884), Philemon (ex Tropidorhynchus inornatus Meyer, 1875), subsp. Pitohui kirhocephalus, subsp. Pucrasia macrolopha, syn. Rhipidura atra, subsp. Tanysiptera galatea, subsp. Timeliopsis fulvigula, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, subsp. Xanthotis flaviventer (ex Ptilotis pyrrhotis Meyer, 1875)).
● Dr Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836) German botanist, ornithologist, collector (syn. Limosa lapponica, Poicephalus).
● Fr. P. Rudolf Otto Maria Meyer (1877-1937) German missionary to the Bismarck Archipelago 1902-1937 (syn. Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae, subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis, subsp. Ptilinopus solomonensis).

Olive Straightbill (fuscicapilla)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis fulvigula fuscicapilla
fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus  dusky, brown; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.