Rufous-sided Gerygone

SCI Name:  Gerygone dorsalis
Protonym:  Gerygone dorsalis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.199
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Gerygone
Taxonomy Code:  rusger1
Type Locality:  Larat Island.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1883
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GERYGONE
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ White-throated Gerygone G. olivacea) Gr. γηρυγονος gērugonos  echoes  < γηρυω gēruō  to sing; γονη gonē  offspring, child; "I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain" (Gould 1865); "These birds having been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone" (Gould 1841); "Gerygone Gould, 1841, in G. Grey, Journ. Two Exped. Discovery Northwest Western Australia, 2, p. 417, note. New name for Psilopus Gould, 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Meigen, 1824." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 444).  
Var. Gerigone, Gerypont.
Synon. Ethelornis, Hapolorhynchus, Leptotodus, Maorigerygone, Ostiarius, Pseudogerygone, Psilopus, Royigerygone, Tinamulus, Wilsonavis.

dorsale / dorsalis
L. dorsalis (properly dorsualis)  dorsal, of the back  < dorsum  back.
● ex “Chorlito à dos noir” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 (syn. Calidris melanotos).

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-sided Gerygone (senex)
SCI Name: Gerygone dorsalis senex
senex
L. senex, senis  old person (i.e. grey-haired, white-haired, querulous).

Rufous-sided Gerygone (keyensis)
SCI Name: Gerygone dorsalis keyensis
keyensis
Key Is., Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Kai or Kei Is., Indonesia.

Rufous-sided Gerygone (fulvescens)
SCI Name: Gerygone dorsalis fulvescens
fulvescens
Med. L. fulvescens, fulvescentis  glowing yellow  < fulvescere  to glow yellow  < L. fulvus  tawny.
● See: furvescens

Rufous-sided Gerygone (kuehni)
SCI Name: Gerygone dorsalis kuehni
kuehni
Heinrich Kühn (1860-1906) German explorer, collector in the East Indies (syn. Aplonis minor, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Coracina novaehollandiae melanops, subsp. Cyornis hyacinthinus, subsp. Dicaeum celebicum, subsp. Dicrurus densus, syn. Eos rubra, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, subsp. Gerygone dorsalis, subsp. Hypotaenidia torquata, Myzomela, subsp. Pachycephala griseonota, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, subsp. Xanthotis polygrammus, Zosterops) (see audacis).

Rufous-sided Gerygone (dorsalis)
SCI Name: Gerygone dorsalis dorsalis
dorsale / dorsalis
L. dorsalis (properly dorsualis)  dorsal, of the back  < dorsum  back.
● ex “Chorlito à dos noir” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 (syn. Calidris melanotos).