Yellow-bellied Hyliota

SCI Name:  Hyliota flavigaster
Protonym:  Hyliota flavigaster Class.Birds 2 p.260 fig.229h
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hyliotidae / Hyliota
Taxonomy Code:  yebhyl1
Type Locality:  Senegal.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYLIOTA
(Hyliotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Hyliota H. flavigaster) Gr. ὑλειωτης huleiōtēs forester, an epithet of Pan  < ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; "Hyliota, Sw. (fig. 229.h)   Bill lengthened, very slightly widened at the base, and much compressed beyond the nostrils.  Rictus nearly smooth.  Wings, tail, and feet as in Muscicapa; but the middle toe is shorter, and the claws are broader, thicker, and much more curved.   Africa: representing Platystera.    H. flavigaster. West. Af. ii." (Swainson 1837); "Hyliota Swainson, 1837 (June or July), Nat. Hist. Class. Birds, 2, p. 260, fig. 229h.  Type, by original designation, Hyliota flavigaster Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 219).
Var. Hyliotis.

flavigasta / flavigaster / flavigastra
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; gaster, gasteris  belly.
● ex “Merle à gorge noire de Saint-Domingue” (= ☼) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 559 (syn. Icterus dominicensis).
● ex “Golondrina de la vientre amarillazo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 306 (syn. Stelgidopteryx ruficollis).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-bellied Hyliota (flavigaster)
SCI Name: Hyliota flavigaster flavigaster
flavigasta / flavigaster / flavigastra
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; gaster, gasteris  belly.
● ex “Merle à gorge noire de Saint-Domingue” (= ☼) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 559 (syn. Icterus dominicensis).
● ex “Golondrina de la vientre amarillazo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 306 (syn. Stelgidopteryx ruficollis).

Yellow-bellied Hyliota (barbozae)
SCI Name: Hyliota flavigaster barbozae
barbozae
José Vicente Barboza du Bocage (1823-1907) Portuguese ornithologist, father of Angolan ornithology (subsp. Hyliota flavigaster).