Yellow-browed Melidectes

SCI Name:  Melidectes rufocrissalis
Protonym:  Melirrhophetes rufocrissalis J.Orn. 63 p.126
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Melidectes
Taxonomy Code:  yebmel1
Type Locality:  Schraderberg, Sepik Mountains, northern New Guinea.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1915
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELIDECTES
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Ornate Honeyeater M. torquatus) Gr. μελι meli,  μελιτος melitos  honey; δηκτης dēktēs  biter  < δηκω dēkō  to bite; "11. MELIDECTES TORQUATUS, gen. et sp. n.  (Pl. LV.)  Melidectes gen. nov.† ex familia Meliphagidarum: rostro elongato, caput æquante, tenuiusculo, parum arcuato; naribus linearibus, in sulco longitudinali positis: spatio altero postoculari lato et altero postrictali angusto omnino nudis; cauda longa, paulum rotundata; tarsis modicis: alis acutis, modice elongatis.   ...  MELIDECTES TORQUATUS, sp. n.  ...  This is a conspicuous new Meliphagine form, not very far from Ptilotis, but distinguishable by the bareness of the sides of the face and bare stripe behind the rictus. These are separated by a scanty line of feathers extending beneath the eye.   ...   †  Mελι, mel, et δηκτης, mordicator." (P. Sclater 1874); "Melidectes Sclater, 1873 [= 1874], Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 694. Type, by monotypy, Melidectes torquatus Sclater." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 415).
Synon. Melionyx, Melirrhophetes.

rufocrissalis
L. rufus rufous; Mod. L. crissalis vented < L. crissare to copulate.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-browed Melidectes (rufocrissalis)
SCI Name: Melidectes rufocrissalis rufocrissalis
rufocrissalis
L. rufus rufous; Mod. L. crissalis vented < L. crissare to copulate.

Yellow-browed Melidectes (thomasi)
SCI Name: Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi
thomasi
● Dr Ernest Thomas Gilliard (1912-1965) US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Melidectes rufocrissalis).
● Capt. Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (1754-1803) French Navy, cartographer, explorer, commander of expedition to Australia 1800-1803 (subsp. Nesoptilotis leucotis).
● Thomas Carter (1863-1931) English ornithologist, collector, pastoralist, explorer in Australia 1886-1921 (subsp. Poodytes gramineus).