Smoky Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Melipotes fumigatus
Protonym:  Melipotes fumigatus Zeitsch.ges.Orn. 3 p.22 pl.4 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Melipotes
Taxonomy Code:  smohon1
Type Locality:  Hufeisengebirge, southeastern New Guinea.
Author:  Meyer, AB
Publish Year:  1886
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELIPOTES
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Arfak Honeyeater M. gymnops) Gr. μελι meli,  μελιτος melitos  honey; ποτης potēs  drinker  < πινω pinō  to drink; "12. MELIPOTES GYMNOPS, gen. et sp. n.  (Plate LVI.)   Melipotes* gen. nov. ex fam. Meliphagidarum, rostro crassiusculo, breviore quam caput, culmine arcuato, gonyde recta; naribus ovalibus; regione auriculari late nuda et subtus carunculata: alis modicis: cauda modica paulum elongata.    MELIPOTES GYMNOPS, sp. n.   ...   Hab. Atam, apud montes Papuanos Arfak.  This form of the Meliphagine family is very distinct on account of the denudation of the whole ocular region, which is fringed below by a narrow caruncle.  D'Albertis's notes do not give the colour of these naked parts; but they are probably orange or flesh-colour.  The bill is short and rather stout; the nostrils are short and suboval, and situated in a shallow groove near the central feathers.   ...   *Mελι, mel, et ποτης, potator." (P. Sclater 1874); "Melipotes Sclater, 1873 [= 1874], Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 695. Type, by monotypy, Melipotes gymnops Sclater." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 420).

fumigata / fumigatus
L. fumigatus  smoked  < fumigavi  to smoke  < fumus, fumi  smoke.
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807 (syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa).

SUBSPECIES

Smoky Honeyeater (goliathi)
SCI Name: Melipotes fumigatus goliathi
goliathi / goliathina
Mt. Goliath, Oranje Mts., New Guinea.

Smoky Honeyeater (fumigatus)
SCI Name: Melipotes fumigatus fumigatus
fumigata / fumigatus
L. fumigatus  smoked  < fumigavi  to smoke  < fumus, fumi  smoke.
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807 (syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa).

Smoky Honeyeater (kumawa)
SCI Name: Melipotes fumigatus kumawa
kumawa
Kumawa Mts., Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesian Papua.