Western Yellow Robin

SCI Name:  Eopsaltria griseogularis
Protonym:  Eopsaltria griseogularis Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 App. p.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Eopsaltria
Taxonomy Code:  gybrob1
Type Locality:  Swan River, Western Australia.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EOPSALTRIA
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Eastern Yellow Robin E. australis) Gr. εως eōs or ηως ēōs dawn; ψαλτρια psaltria singer  < ψαλλω psallō  to sing, to play the lyre; the loud, whistled calls of the Eastern Yellow Robin are the first of the dawn chorus; "32. Sub-genus, EÖPSALTRIA *.  (Generis Pachycephalæ, Sw.)   Rostrum Pachycephalæ sed majus elongatum, rectum; apice adunca, gonyde recta; basi vibrissis paucis cinctum.  Alæ longiusculæ, remigibus tribus prioribus gradatis.  Pedes graciles.  Tarsi elevati.  Ungues longi.  Digiti laterales valde inæquales; duo exteriores basi connexi.  Hallux elongatus sed digito medio brevior.  Cauda longiuscula, æqualis.    Type.—Yellow-breasted Thrush. LEWIN, Birds of N. S. W., pl. 23. (Muscicapa Australis, AUCT.)  ...  * Th. εως Aurora, et ψαλτρια cantatrix." (Swainson 1831); "Eopsaltria Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 2 (1831), p. 492.  Type, by original designation, Motacilla australis J. White." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 571). 
Var. Eoepsaltria, Eiopsaltria, Eöpsaltria.

griseogularis
Med. L. griseum grey; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.

SUBSPECIES

Western Yellow Robin (griseogularis)
SCI Name: Eopsaltria griseogularis griseogularis
griseogularis
Med. L. griseum grey; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.

Western Yellow Robin (rosinae)
SCI Name: Eopsaltria griseogularis rosinae
rosinae
Ethel Rosina White (1876-1926) wife of Australian ornithologist Capt. Samuel White (subsp. Acanthiza iredalei, syn. Cacatua galerita, subsp. Eopsaltria griseogularis, syn. Leipoa ocellata, syn. Psephotus varius, syn. Ptilotula penicillata leilavalensis, subsp. Sericornis frontalis, syn. Stagonopleura bella).