Green Hylia

SCI Name:  Hylia prasina
Protonym:  Sylvia prasina Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 7 p.325
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Macrosphenidae / Hylia
Taxonomy Code:  grehyl1
Type Locality:  Moonda (= Mondah) River, Western Africa = Gabon.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYLIA
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Green Hylia H. prasina) Gr. ὑληεις hulēeis  dwelling in the woods  <  ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; "Genus HYLIA, nobis.  Small, in general appearance sylviform.  Bill curved, upper mandible thick or wide on the lateral view, compressed towards the end, carinated, nostril in a large membrane.  Wings moderate, first quill spurious, third and fourth longest and nearly equal, tail rather long, legs moderate, tarsus with about four large scales in front, toes slender, claws rather large.  Type Sylvia prasina, Cassin.    63. HYLIA PRASINA, (Cassin.)  Sylvia prasina, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philada. 1845, p. 325. "Stiphrornis superciliaris, Temm. Mus. Lugd."?   This bird is by no manner of means a Stiphrornis, if S. erythrothorax is the type, which appears to be the case, nor is it a Chloropeta of which C. natalensis, Smith, is the type, nor moreover do we know any other genus to which it belongs, and so set up for ourselves as best we may." (Cassin 1859); "Hylia Cassin, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 40.  Type, by original designation, Sylvia prasina Cassin." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 221).  The Green Hylia and the Tit Hylia Pholidornis were formerly treated in a separate family Hyliidae, a proposal recently resurrected. 

prasina
L. prasinus  leek-green  < Gr. πρασινος prasinos  leek-green  < πρασον prason  leek.
● ex “Verdier de Java” of Brisson 1760 (Erythrura).

SUBSPECIES

Green Hylia (prasina)
SCI Name: Hylia prasina prasina
prasina
L. prasinus  leek-green  < Gr. πρασινος prasinos  leek-green  < πρασον prason  leek.
● ex “Verdier de Java” of Brisson 1760 (Erythrura).

Green Hylia (poensis)
SCI Name: Hylia prasina poensis
poense / poensis
Fernando Póo or Fernando Pó, Gulf of Guinea / Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (island sighted by Portuguese navigator Fernaõ do Póo in 1470).