Orange-cheeked Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Oreornis chrysogenys
Protonym:  Oreornis chrysogenys NotesLeydenMus. 32 p.215
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Oreornis
Taxonomy Code:  orchon1
Type Locality:  4,150 m., Oranje Mountains.
Author:  van Oort
Publish Year:  1910
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OREORNIS
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Orange-cheeked Honeyeater O. chrysogenys) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain (i.e. Oranje Mts., New Guinea); ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Oreornis, nov. gen Meliphagidarum.  Bill rather short, shorter than the head, culmen slightly curved, black; nostrils placed in a broad groove at the base of the bill and covered by a membrane.  Wings rather long, a little longer than the tail.  The fourth and the fifth primary equal in length and longest, third primary a little shorter, the second much shorter, the first a little longer than the half of the second.  Tail rounded, feathers rather broad.  Feet strong; tarso-metatarsus longer than middle toe with claw and scutellated in front.  Dorsal plumage long and soft.  Below the eye a patch of ochraceous, and on the earcoverts a patch of yellow, slightly lengthened feathers.  No bare space at the head.    Oreornis chrysogenys nov. spec.  ♂, Oranje Mountains (4150 m.), 9 November 1910; coll. Lorentz." (van Oort 1910); "Oreornis Van Oort, 1910, Notes Leyden Mus., 32, p. 214. Type, by monotypy, Oreornis chrysogenys Van Oort." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 391).

chrysogenys
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.