Yellow-faced Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Caligavis chrysops
Protonym:  Sylvia chrysops Suppl.ind.orn. p.liv
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Caligavis
Taxonomy Code:  yefhon1
Type Locality:  Nova Hollandia; restricted to Sydney, New South Wales, by Mathews, 1912, Novit. Zool., 18 (1911), p. 406; cf. Stresemann, 1951, Emu, 50, p. 68.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CALIGAVIS
(Meliphagidae; † Obscure Honeyeater C. obscura) L. caligo, caliginis  darkness, gloom; avis  bird; "CALIGAVIS gen. nov.  Type, obscura De Vis 1897 (Ptilotis).   ...   OBSCURE HONEY-SUCKER (Caligavis obscura)   ...  The name "Obscure" is most applicable as everything about the bird in literature is unclear.  The generic name Caligavis is proposed to act as a lighthouse to warn of the dangers in connection with the two species, the type being obscura, and the characters are the dark coloration, streaked above and below, small size with tail shorter than wing, short bill with longer legs and the bare eye space.   ...   In New Guinea, the species [Caligavis subfrenata] is even more confused than the preceding, as no fewer than seven names have been given to it though its range is co-incident with that." (Iredale 1956); "Caligavis Iredale, 1956, Birds New Guinea, I, p. xv; II, p. 150.  Type, by original designation, Ptilotis obscura De Vis, 1897." (JAJ 2020).

chrysops
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face (cf. χρυσωψ khrusōps, χρυσωπος khrusōpos  gold-coloured, gold-shining).
● ex “Yellow-eared Flycatcher” of White, 1790 (Caligavis).
● ex “Acahé” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 53 (Cyanocorax).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-faced Honeyeater (barroni)
SCI Name: Caligavis chrysops barroni
barroni
Barron River, northern Queensland, Australia.

Yellow-faced Honeyeater (chrysops)
SCI Name: Caligavis chrysops chrysops
chrysops
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face (cf. χρυσωψ khrusōps, χρυσωπος khrusōpos  gold-coloured, gold-shining).
● ex “Yellow-eared Flycatcher” of White, 1790 (Caligavis).
● ex “Acahé” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 53 (Cyanocorax).

Yellow-faced Honeyeater (samueli)
SCI Name: Caligavis chrysops samueli
samueli
Capt. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) Australian Army, explorer, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Acanthiza pusilla, subsp. Caligavis chrysops, subsp. Calyptorhynchus banksii, syn. Cinclosoma cinnamomeum, syn. Falco longipennis, syn. Lichenostomus cratitius, subsp. Malurus cyaneus, syn. Petroica boodang, syn. Stagonopleura bella).