Red-faced Crombec / Sylvietta whytii
Red-faced Crombec
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylviella whytii Ibis p.13
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Macrosphenidae / Sylvietta
Taxonomy Code: refcro1
Type Locality: Zomba, Nyasaland.
Author: Shelley
Publish Year: 1894
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SYLVIETTA
(Macrosphenidae; Ϯ Northern Crombec S. brachyura) Mod. L. sylvietta little warbler, woodland sprite < dim. genus Sylvia Scopoli, 1769, warbler; "Familia SYLVIDÆ, Sectio Sylvidæ paroideæ, sub-gen. Sylvietta de La Fr., Sylvietta brachyura, de La Fr. ... Ce petit bec-fin du Sénégal a un plumage entièrement coloré comme celui du Figuier crombec de Levaillant, pl. 135, de l'Afrique australe, remarquable ainsi que lui par une queue d'une brièveté extraordinaire et conforme également quant aux pattes, mais ayant le bec plus allongé et plus arqué, d'où son nom hollandais de Krome-bec, bec courbé. Levaillant observe à son sujet que, malgré ce bec allongé et arqué comme celui des Sucriers, cet oiseau ne se nourrit nullement du suc des fleurs, mais voltige sans cesse dans le feuillage à la recherche des insectes, sa seule nourriture comme les vrais figuiers: il indique seulement qu'il pourrait former un petit genre de transition entre les figuiers et les sucriers, ou Soui-mangas. ... Nous ajoutons donc aux Sylvietta crombec et brachyura, la Sylvietta icteropygialis, de La Fr." (de La Fresnaye 1839); "Sylvietta Lafresnaye, 1839, Rev. Zool. Paris, 2, p. 258. Type, by original designation, Sylvietta brachyura Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 207).
Var. Sylviella, Sylvetta, Sylveta.
Synon. Baeocerca, Oligocercus, Oligura.
whytei / whytii
Alexander Whyte (1834-1905) British government naturalist in Nyasaland 1891-1897 (subsp. Cinnyris ludovicensis, subsp. Crithagra striolata, Scleroptila, Stactolaema, Sylvietta).
SUBSPECIES
Red-faced Crombec (loringi)
SCI Name: Sylvietta whytii loringi
loringi
John Alden Loring (1871-1947) US zoologist, field-naturalist, collector in North America 1892-1897, and tropical Africa 1909-1910 (subsp. Merops variegatus, syn. Sarothrura elegans, subsp. Sylvietta whytii).
Red-faced Crombec (jacksoni)
SCI Name: Sylvietta whytii jacksoni
jacksoni / jacksonii
● Sidney William Jackson (1873-1946) Australian oologist, taxidermist, collector and curator for H. L. White 1907-1927 (subsp. Atrichornis rufescens, syn. Eopsaltria chrysorrhos magnirostris, syn. Gerygone fusca).
● Sir Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929) English explorer, colonial administrator, Lt.-Gov. of East Africa Protectorate 1907-1911, Gov. of Uganda 1911-1917, naturalist, collector (subsp. Acrocephalus gracilirostris, Apalis, subsp. Aplopelia simplex, syn. Bathmocercus rufus vulpinus, subsp. Chlorophoneus bocagei, Cryptospiza, syn. Cuculus clamosus, Euplectes, syn. Illadopsis pyrrhoptera, syn. Mirafra poecilosterna, subsp. Nectarinia tacazze, subsp. Neotis denhami, subsp. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Platysteira peltata mentalis, Ploceus, syn. Pogoniulus coryphaea hildamariae, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, Pternistis, subsp. Sylvia lugens, subsp. Sylvietta whytii, Tockus, syn. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus versicolor, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).
● C. Jackson (fl. 1829) English naturalist, collector (syn. Larus argentatus).
● Alfred Sloan Jackson (1901-1994) US teacher, biologist, pioneer gamebird field-researcher in Texas (syn. Vireo plumbeus).
Red-faced Crombec (minima)
SCI Name: Sylvietta whytii minima
minima / minimum / minimus
L. minimus smallest, least < super. parvus small.
● ex “Cabaret” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 485, fig. 2 (syn. Acanthis cabaret).
● ex “Petit Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (syn. Lagonosticta senegala).
● ex “Petite Becassine” of Brisson 1760 (Lymnocryptes).
● "60. TROCHILUS. ... minimus. 18. T. rectricibus lateralibus margine exteriore albis, corpore fusco nitente, subtus albido. Avis mellivora minima. Edw. av. 105. t. 105. s. infima. Habitat in America. Avis minima inter omnes notas." (Linnaeus 1758) (Mellisuga).
● ex “Long-legged Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Xenicus longipes).
Red-faced Crombec (whytii)
SCI Name: Sylvietta whytii whytii
whytei / whytii
Alexander Whyte (1834-1905) British government naturalist in Nyasaland 1891-1897 (subsp. Cinnyris ludovicensis, subsp. Crithagra striolata, Scleroptila, Stactolaema, Sylvietta).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)