Green-backed Gerygone

SCI Name:  Gerygone chloronota
Protonym:  Gerygone chloronotus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.133
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Gerygone
Taxonomy Code:  gnbger1
Type Locality:  Port Essington, Northern Territory.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GERYGONE
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ White-throated Gerygone G. olivacea) Gr. γηρυγονος gērugonos  echoes  < γηρυω gēruō  to sing; γονη gonē  offspring, child; "I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain" (Gould 1865); "These birds having been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone" (Gould 1841); "Gerygone Gould, 1841, in G. Grey, Journ. Two Exped. Discovery Northwest Western Australia, 2, p. 417, note. New name for Psilopus Gould, 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Meigen, 1824." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 444).  
Var. Gerigone, Gerypont.
Synon. Ethelornis, Hapolorhynchus, Leptotodus, Maorigerygone, Ostiarius, Pseudogerygone, Psilopus, Royigerygone, Tinamulus, Wilsonavis.

chloronota
Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

SUBSPECIES

Green-backed Gerygone (cinereiceps)
SCI Name: Gerygone chloronota cinereiceps
cinereiceps
L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Green-backed Gerygone (aruensis)
SCI Name: Gerygone chloronota aruensis
aruense / aruensis
Aru Is., Moluccas, Indonesia.

Green-backed Gerygone (chloronota)
SCI Name: Gerygone chloronota chloronota
chloronota
Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

Green-backed Gerygone (darwini)
SCI Name: Gerygone chloronota darwini
darwini / darwinii
● Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) British naturalist, explorer (naturalist to HMS Beagle 1831-1836), joint originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection (subsp. Geospiza magnirostris, Lanius collurio x Lanius isabellinus hybrid, syn. Napothera crispifrons, Nothura, subsp. Pucrasia macrolopha, Pipraeidea, syn. Rhea pennata, syn. Upucerthia dumetaria hypoleuca).
● Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (subsp. Gerygone chloronota).