Sunda Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Horornis vulcanius
Protonym:  Sylvia vulcania Ibis p.170
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Horornis
Taxonomy Code:  subwar4
Type Locality:  Java and Timor; inferentially restricted to Java by Delacour, 1947, Auk, 64, p. 129.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

HORORNIS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler H. fortipes) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  hill; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The others have the tarse scutellate and rather longer, and the tail broad and fan-shaped, and not at all rigid or worn; these I style Horornis, though they hardly deserve subgeneric separation.   ...  Genus Horornis, mihi.  General structure of Tribura, but the rictus more or less armed; the tarse strongly scaled; the wings more gradated, having the fifth or sixth longest, and the tail broad, fan-shaped, and not worn or rigid. Inhabits the northern hills; manners unknown.  Types, fortipes and flaviventris.  H. fortipes, mihi.   ...   H. flaviventris, mihi.   ...   H.? fuligiventer, mihi.— Aberrant; probably a Tribura.   ...   H.? fulviventris, mihi." (Hodgson 1845); "550. HORORNIS, Hodgs. 1844.  (Horornis flaviventris, Hodgs.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Horornis Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 31. Types H. fortipes and H. flaviventris; restricted to H. fortipes (Seebohm, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 5, p. 133)." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 8) (see Tribura).   
Synon. Antiornis, Drymochaera, Gladkovia, Herbivox, Homochlamys, Psamathia, Vitia.

vulcania / vulcanica / vulcanius
Mod. L. vulcanius  volcanic, of a volcano  < Italian volcano or vulcano  volcano  < Roman myth. Volcanus or Vulcanus Vulcan, the god of fire.
• Volcán San Miguel, El Salvador (subsp. Aulacorhynchus prasinus).
• Volcán de Tacaná, Chiapas, Mexico (subsp. Campylopterus zonatus).
• Java (Cettia).
• Volcán Viejo / Volcán Cosigüina, Chinandega, Nicaragua (subsp. Peucaea botterii).

SUBSPECIES

Sunda Bush Warbler (sepiarius)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius sepiarius
sepiaria / sepiarium / sepiarius
● L. sepes, sepis, or saepes, saepis  hedge.
● Mod. L. sepiarius  sepia-brown, reddish-brown, rich brown  < Gr. σηπια sēpia  cuttle-fish, sepia.

Sunda Bush Warbler (flaviventris)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius flaviventris
flaviventer / flaviventre / flaviventris
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Ortolan à ventre jaune du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 664, fig. 2 (Emberiza).
● ex “Petit Râle de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 847 (Hapalocrex).
● ex "Ypacahá ceja blanca" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 377 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● ex “Coucou à ventre rayé de l’Île Panay” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Hierococcyx sparverioides).
● ex “Tachurí vientre amarillo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 171 (Pseudocolopteryx).
● ex “Tangara tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 290, fig. 2 (syn. Tangara mexicana).

Sunda Bush Warbler (vulcanius)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius vulcanius
vulcania / vulcanica / vulcanius
Mod. L. vulcanius  volcanic, of a volcano  < Italian volcano or vulcano  volcano  < Roman myth. Volcanus or Vulcanus Vulcan, the god of fire.
• Volcán San Miguel, El Salvador (subsp. Aulacorhynchus prasinus).
• Volcán de Tacaná, Chiapas, Mexico (subsp. Campylopterus zonatus).
• Java (Cettia).
• Volcán Viejo / Volcán Cosigüina, Chinandega, Nicaragua (subsp. Peucaea botterii).

Sunda Bush Warbler (oreophilus)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius oreophilus
oreophilus
Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

Sunda Bush Warbler (banksi)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius banksi
banksi
● Edward H. Banks (1903-1988) British District Officer in Sarawak, zoologist, Curator of Sarawak Mus. 1925-1945 (subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus).
● Sir Joseph Banks, Bt. (1743-1820) English botanist, explorer, chief naturalist on Cook's voyage 1768-1771, founder of Kew Gardens, President of the Royal Society 1778-1820, patron of the sciences (syn. Pachyptila desolata).
● Dr Richard Charles Banks (b. 1931) US ornithologist, conservationist (subsp. Setophaga petechia).

Sunda Bush Warbler (palawanus)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius palawanus
palawana / palawanense / palawanensis / palawanorum / palawanus
Palawan, Philippines.

Sunda Bush Warbler (everetti)
SCI Name: Horornis vulcanius everetti
everetti / everettii
Alfred Hart Everett (1848-1898) English administrator in Sarawak 1872-1890, naturalist, collector in the Philippines and East Indies (Arachnothera, syn. Bradypterus castaneus, subsp. Cacomantis vaiolosus, subsp. Cyornis concretus, Dicaeum, syn. Dicaeum hypoleucum pontifex, Dinopium, syn. Ducula pickeringii, subsp. Edolisoma mindanense, syn. Eudynamys orientalis picatus, syn. Gerygone inornata, subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus, Hypsipetes, subsp. Lonchura leucogastra, subsp. Mixornis bornensis, syn. Ninox spilocephala reyi, Otus, subsp. Pachycephala fulvotincta, subsp. Phyllergates cucullatus, subsp. Phylloscopus poliocephalus, subsp. Pnoepyga pusilla, subsp. Ptilinopus cinctus, Rhyticeros, syn. Sasia abnormis, Symposiachrus, Tanygnathus, Tesia, subsp. Treron axillaris, Turnix, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, Yuhina, Zoothera, Zosterops).