Chapin's Apalis

SCI Name:  Apalis chapini
Protonym:  Apalis chapini Proc.NewEngl.Zool.Cl. 10 p.47
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Apalis
Taxonomy Code:  chaapa1
Type Locality:  Nyingwa, Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika; altitude 8,000 feet.
Author:  Friedmann
Publish Year:  1928
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

APALIS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-throated Apalis A. thoracica) Gr. ἁπαλος hapalos  soft, delicate (cf. Gotch 1981, erroneously suggested Apalis might be from an African name); "[plate 119] APALIS thoracica   ...   [text] APALIS thoracia [sic].  Gorget Warbler.   Family Sylviadæ.  Sub-fam: Sylvianæ.   Genus (?) Apalis.   GENERIC (?) CHARACTER.  General structue [sic] of Prinea, but the bill shorter, the plumage more compact, and the outer toe not connected to the middle as far as the first joint.   ...   Le Plastron Noir. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. 3 pl. 123. f. 1 male. 2 fem.  Motacilla thoracia [sic]. Nat. Miss [sic].  22. pl. 969.   THIS is one of the pretty warblers of Southern Africa, discovered by Le Vaillant: it is very common and widely distributed in the interior, but rare near the Cape.   ...   That this bird is of a tenuirostral type, is almost certain; seeing that it is an obvious representation of Motacilla, Pachycephala, Tamatia, Trichas, Charadrius, and many other collared groups: but whether it forms part of the genus Prinea, or represents the tenuirostral genus between that and Culicivora, is very uncertain. We suspect that this latter station is filled by the Taylor-Warblers of India, not one of which is to be found in our public Museums." (Swainson 1832); "Apalis Swainson, 1832, Zool. Illus., ser. 2, 3, p. 119, pl. 119. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla thoracica Shaw and Nodder." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 154). 
Var. Hapalis. 
Synon. Chlorodyta, Drymoterpe, Euprinodes.

chapini
Dr James Paul Chapin (1889-1964) US ornithologist, artist, collector in the Belgian Congo, Curator AMNH (syn. Anthus similis bannermani, Apalis, syn. Bradornis fuliginosus, subsp. Cinnyris stuhlmanni, syn. Corvinella corvina affinis, syn. Dendrospiza citrinelloides frontalis, subsp. Dryoscopus cubla, Kupeornis, subsp. Mirafra africana, subsp. Motacilla clara, subsp. Sheppardia bocagei, ‡Sylvietta, syn. Tricholaema hirsuta flavipunctata).

SUBSPECIES

Chapin's Apalis (strausae)
SCI Name: Apalis chapini strausae
strausae
Sarah Straus née Lavanburg (1861-1945) US traveller, philanthropist, wife of diplomat and businessman Oscar Solomon Straus (subsp. Apalis chapini).

Chapin's Apalis (chapini)
SCI Name: Apalis chapini chapini
chapini
Dr James Paul Chapin (1889-1964) US ornithologist, artist, collector in the Belgian Congo, Curator AMNH (syn. Anthus similis bannermani, Apalis, syn. Bradornis fuliginosus, subsp. Cinnyris stuhlmanni, syn. Corvinella corvina affinis, syn. Dendrospiza citrinelloides frontalis, subsp. Dryoscopus cubla, Kupeornis, subsp. Mirafra africana, subsp. Motacilla clara, subsp. Sheppardia bocagei, ‡Sylvietta, syn. Tricholaema hirsuta flavipunctata).