Somali Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe phillipsi
Protonym:  Saxicola phillipsi Ibis p.404 pl.12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  somwhe1
Type Locality:  mountains near Berbera.
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe.  Motacilla, Linn.  Silvia et Turdus, Lath.  Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816  F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.

oenanthe
L. oenanthe  wheatear  < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season  < οινη oinē  vine; ανθος anthos  bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ...  Oenanthe.  17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217.  Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55.  β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219.  Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54.  Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis.  Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).

phillipsi / phillipsii
● Dr Allan Robert Phillips (1914-1996) US ornithologist, taxonomist, collector (subsp. Aimophila ruficeps, subsp. Baeolophus wollweberi, subsp. Cardinalis cardinalis, subsp. Catharus ustulatus, subsp. Certhia americana, subsp. Cochlearius cochlearius, subsp. Cyanocitta stelleri, syn. Icterus spurius, subsp. Pachysylvia decurtata, subsp. Setophaga petechia, Tangara).
● Maj. William Watt Addison Phillips (1892-1981) British tea-planter, naturalist in Ceylon (subsp. Alcedo meninting, syn. Ardeola grayii (Martin Schneider in litt.), subsp. Dumetia hyperythra, subsp. Treron phoenicopterus).
● Dr John Charles Phillips (1876-1938) US conservationist, ornithologist, philanthropist, world traveller (syn. Anthus correndera grayi, subsp. Turdus migratorius).
● Eponym; "Anthreptes collaris phillipsi new race.  ...   Type.—In the British Museum.  Female: Lofu River, Northern Rhodesia, collected by S. A. Neave, 17 August, 1908." (C. M. N. White 1950, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 70, 41); doubtless after either (1) Edwin Percy Phillips (1884-1967) South African botanist, taxonomist, or (2) Charles Malcolm Phillips (1918-1990) British surgeon, ophthalmologist in Northern Rhodesia (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Hedydipna collaris garguensis).
● Dr Benjamin Phillips (1805-1861) British physician, naturalist, bibliophile, friend of Audubon (syn. Leuconotopicus villosus).
● Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips (1857-1944) English businessman, explorer, big-game hunter in East Africa 1885-1895 (Oenanthe).