Wedge-tailed Jery / Hartertula flavoviridis

Wedge-tailed Jery / Hartertula flavoviridis

Wedge-tailed Jery

SCI Name:  Hartertula flavoviridis
Protonym:  Neomixis flavoviridis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 45 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Bernieridae /
Taxonomy Code:  wetjer2
Type Locality:  Analamazastra, Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1924
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DEFINITIONS

HARTERTULA
(Bernieridae; Ϯ Wedge-tailed Tetraka H. flavoviridis) Dim. after Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859-1933) German ornithologist, Curator of Rothschild Collection, Tring.  "Hartertula nov. genus Timeliidarum.   Das Zoolog. Museum Berlin erwarb vor kurzem von der Naturalienhandlung Fritsche in Bremerhaven 3 Exemplare der Neomixis flavoviridis, welche vor Jahresfrist von Hartert nach einem Exemplar aus Analamazastra, Madagaskar  beschrieben worden ist." (Stresemann 1925) (OD per Martin Schneider); "Hartertula Stresemann, Orn. Monastb. [sic] xxxiii, p. 186, 1925.  Type by original designation, Neomixis flavoviridis Hart." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 531).

flavoviridis
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; viridis  green  < virere  to be green.