Yellowish White-eye

SCI Name:  Zosterops nigrorum
Protonym:  Zosterops nigrorum Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.286
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Zosterops
Taxonomy Code:  yelwhe1
Type Locality:  Valencia, Negros.
Author:  Tweeddale
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ZOSTEROPS
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Madagascar White-eye Z. maderaspatanus) Gr. ζωστηρ zōstēr, ζωστηρος zōstēros  belt, girdle; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye; "Genus. ZOSTEROPS*.   Rostrum mediocre, gracile, arcuatum; mandibula superiore vix emarginata; naribus basalibus, linearibus, longitudinalibus, membrana supra tectis, rictu inermi.  Alæ mediocres; remigibus prima et quinta fere æqualibus, secunda tertia et quarta paulo longioribus, fere æqualibus, primariis secundarias paululum longitudine superantibus.  Pedes subfortes, subelongati; acrotarsiis scutellatis.  Cauda æqualis.  Caput gracile, concinnum; plumulis periopthalmicis subsericeis albis cingulum subprominentem efformantibus.   ...   The true Sylvia, if we select the slenderly-formed Warblers of Europe, such as the Motacillæ hippolais, trochilus, &c. Linn., as the types of the genus, are set apart from almost all the other species by the formation of their wing, in which the first quill-feather is extremely short, in some instances, indeed, almost spurious.  Of the foreign groups of the family we have already observed that the New Holland genera Malurus and Acanthiza come nearest the European type by the same construction of the wing.  The present group essentially differs from it.  The first quill-feather is long, almost equal to the second, which together with the third and fourth,—all of them nearly of a length,—are the longest.  The nares also are linear and longitudinal, thus differing from the oval form of the European type.  In other respects the characters of these two groups have a general accordance.  Besides the disposition of the wing-feathers, we may also mention the scutellation of the tarsi, the even tail, and the unarmed rictus, as additional marks of distinction from the before-mentioned New Holland Sylviadæ.  From the genus Hylophilus of M. Temminck, which has lately been separated with much judgement from the Sylvia of Dr. Latham, and which also has the first quill-feather elongated and nearly even with the rest, our present group may readily be distinguished by a much more gracile and arcuated bill, in which the nares also are of a different construction.  The Motacilla Maderaspatana of Linnæus, (Sylvia Madagascariensis, Lath.), belongs to our group, which seems to have a very wide dispersion.    1. DORSALIS  ...  Sylvia annulosa, var. β.  Swains. Zool. Illust. pl. 16.  ...  Orbitæ plumulis albis vestitæ.   ...   *Zωστηρ cingulum, and ωψ oculus." (Vigors & Horsfield 1826); "Zosterops Vigors and Horsfield, 1826, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 234. Type, by subsequent designation (Lesson, 1828 Man. Orn., 1, p. 286), Motacilla maderaspatana Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 290). The majority of white-eyes have a ring of white feathers around each eye.
Var. Fosterops, Fosterzops, Zostenops.
Synon. Cyclopterops, Luteozosterops, Malacirops, Nesozosterops, Oreosterops, Parinia, Sanfordia, Speirops, Tephras, Woodfordia, Zosteropisylvia.

zosterops
Gr. ζωστηρ zōstēr, ζωςτηρος zōstēros  belt, girdle; ωψ ōps,  ωπος ōpos  eye.

nigrorum
● Mod. L. Nigrorum  of Negros, Philippines; the island was named Isla de Negros by the Spaniards because of its dark-skinned inhabitants  < L. niger  black.
● Mod. L. Terra Nigrorum  land of the negroes (i.e. West Africa); "Alseonax cinereus nigrorum nom. nov. versus A. cinereus cinerascens (Sharpe). Muscicapa cinerascens Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv, p. 155 (1879 - Gold Coast), nec Spix, Aves Bras. ii, p. 16, pl. xii (1825)" (Collin & Hartert 1927) (subsp. Fraseria caerulescens).

SUBSPECIES

Yellowish White-eye (meyleri)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum meyleri
meyleri
John Meyler (fl. 1907) US resident on Camiguin I., Philippines (subsp. Zosterops nigrorum).

Yellowish White-eye (aureiloris)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum aureiloris
aureiloris
L. aureus  golden  < aurum  gold; Mod. L. loris  lores  < lorum  lore  < L. lorum, lori  strap.

Yellowish White-eye (innominatus)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum innominatus
innominata / innominatus
L. innominatus  un-named  < in-  not; nominatus  noted  < nominare  to name  < nomen, nominis  name.

Yellowish White-eye (luzonicus)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum luzonicus
luzonensis / luzonia / luzonica / luzonicus / luzoniense / luzoniensis
Luzon, Philippines.
● ex “Crabier de la côte de Coromandel” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 910 (syn. Bubulcus ibis coromandus).
● ex “Tourterelle grise ensanglantée de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (Gallicolumba).
● ex “Chirugien de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Luzonian Jacana” of Latham 1785 (syn. Hydrophasianus chirurgus).
● ex “Courlis tacheté de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Luzonian Curlew” of Latham 1785 (syn. Numenius phaeopus variegatus).
● ex “Barbu de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Psilopogon haemacephalus).
● Erroneous TL. Luzon (= South Africa); ex "Trogon de l'isle de Luçon" of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Tricholaema leucomelas).
● ex “Caille de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Luzonian Quail” of Latham 1783 (?syn. Turnix ocellatus).
● Erroneous TL Luzon (= Mindanao, Philippines); ex “Gobe-mouche noir de l’isle de Luzon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Black Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.; ?syn. Sittiparus semilarvatus).

Yellowish White-eye (nigrorum)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum nigrorum
nigrorum
● Mod. L. Nigrorum  of Negros, Philippines; the island was named Isla de Negros by the Spaniards because of its dark-skinned inhabitants  < L. niger  black.
● Mod. L. Terra Nigrorum  land of the negroes (i.e. West Africa); "Alseonax cinereus nigrorum nom. nov. versus A. cinereus cinerascens (Sharpe). Muscicapa cinerascens Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv, p. 155 (1879 - Gold Coast), nec Spix, Aves Bras. ii, p. 16, pl. xii (1825)" (Collin & Hartert 1927) (subsp. Fraseria caerulescens).

Yellowish White-eye (mindorensis)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum mindorensis
mindorensis
Mindoro, Philippines.

Yellowish White-eye (catarmanensis)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum catarmanensis
catarmanenis / catarmanensis
Catarman Mt., Catarman, Camiguin, Philippines.

Yellowish White-eye (richmondi)
SCI Name: Zosterops nigrorum richmondi
richmondi
● Dr Charles Wallace Richmond (1868-1932) US ornithologist, bibliographer, nomenclaturist (subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, syn. Aplonis panayensis heterochlora, subsp. Arremonops conirostris, subsp. Chaetura vauxi, subsp. Hypothymis azurea, syn. Leucippus fallax, syn. Meleagris californicus, subsp. Oriolus chinensis, syn. Pachyramphus aglaiae albiventris, syn. Rhinomyias umbratilis, subsp. Spilornis cheela, syn. Thalassarche melanophris, subsp. Zosterops nigrorum).
● Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia (subsp. Gerygone mouki, syn. Stipiturus malachurus).