White-browed Forest-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Fraseria cinerascens
Protonym:  Fraseria cinerascens Syst.Orn.Westafr. p.102
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Fraseria
Taxonomy Code:  wbffly1
Type Locality:  Ashanti, Gold Coast.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1857
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

FRASERIA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ African Forest Flycatcher F. ocreata) Louis Fraser (?1819-?1883) English zoologist, Curator of ZSL Museum 1832-1846, Curator of Knowsley Collection 1848-1851, Vice-Consul to Dahomey 1851-1853, collector in Nigeria 1841-1842, Ecuador 1857, California 1860, and Florida 1883. "L'africaine Tephr. ochreata, Strickland, à queue arrondie, à acrotarses d'une seule pièce, admirablement figurée par Fraser dans sa Zoologie typique, méritait un genre à part que nous établissons sous le nom de Fraseria, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); Heine and Reichenow, 1890, Nomencl. Musei Heineani Ornith., p. 41, regarded Fraseria as a barbarous name, but, uncharacteristically, did not offer any alternative or replacement; "Fraseria Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. xxxviii, pp. 386, 536, 1854.  Type by monotypy, Tephrodornis ocreatus Strickland." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 411).
Synon. Apatema, Chapinia, Chapinornis, Cichlomyia, Eomelpusa, Eucnemidea, Hypodes, Myioparus.

cinerascens
Late L. cinerescens, cinerescentis  ashen  < cinerescere  to turn to ashes  < L. cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Mésange Grisette” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 138 (Melaniparus).

SUBSPECIES

White-browed Forest-Flycatcher (cinerascens)
SCI Name: Fraseria cinerascens cinerascens
cinerascens
Late L. cinerescens, cinerescentis  ashen  < cinerescere  to turn to ashes  < L. cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Mésange Grisette” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 138 (Melaniparus).

White-browed Forest-Flycatcher (ruthae)
SCI Name: Fraseria cinerascens ruthae
ruthae
Ruth Chapin née Trimble (fl. 1958) US field ornithologist, collector, second wife of Dr James P. Chapin (subsp. Anthoscopus flavifrons, subsp. Estrilda paludicola, subsp. Fraseria cinerascens).