Burnt-neck Eremomela

SCI Name:  Eremomela usticollis
Protonym:  Eremomela usticollis Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.102
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Eremomela
Taxonomy Code:  bunere1
Type Locality:  'in Caffraria superiori.'' Type from Leroma, Transvaal, fide Gyldenstolpe, 1927, Arkiv. Zool., 19 A, no. 1, p. 50.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EREMOMELA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Eremomela E. icteropygialis) Gr. ερημος erēmos  desert; μελος melos  song, melody; "23. Eremomela (n. g.) flaviventris ("Sylvia flaviventris Burch." Wahlb.) in schedulis   ...   Hab. in Caffraria superiore, campestri et sylvatica.   Char. generis.  Ala mediocris, vix fornicata, pennis 1—3 gradatis, prima brevi; 3=4.  Rostrum subulatum, acutum, vix incisum (fere Sylviæ trochili), vibrissis obsoletis; naribus Sylviæ.  Tarsi scutati; digiti laterales æquales.  Cauda brevior, leviter emarginata, pennis angustioribus.— Sp. inter Sylvias et Zosteropes mediæ; similes Acanthizis, sed minus pictæ.  A Phyllopneustis præcipue differunt vibrissis vix ullis, rostro acutiore, cauda breviore, linea superciliari non distincta, vel saltem non flava.  Radices nominis: Eρημος, desertum; μελος, carmen, hinc Eremomela, deserti cantor." (Sundevall 1850); "Eremomela Sundevall, 1850, Öfversigt K. Vetenskaps-Akad. Förhandlingar, Stockholm, 7, p. 102. Type, by original designation, Sylvia flaviventris Burchell [1822 nec Sylvia flaviventris Vieillot, 1817] = Sylvietta icteropygialis Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 196).   
Var. Erenomela.   
Synon. Baeoscelis, Dryodromas, Eremomeloides, Magalilais, Tricholais.

usticollis
L. ustus  burnt  < urere  to burn; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.

SUBSPECIES

Burnt-neck Eremomela (rensi)
SCI Name: Eremomela usticollis rensi
rensi
Revd. J. H. Rens (1886-1957) Dutch missionary to Nyasaland 1915-1949 (subsp. Eremomela usticollis).

Burnt-neck Eremomela (usticollis)
SCI Name: Eremomela usticollis usticollis
usticollis
L. ustus  burnt  < urere  to burn; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.