Rufous-crowned Eremomela / Eremomela badiceps

Rufous-crowned Eremomela / Eremomela badiceps

Rufous-crowned Eremomela

SCI Name:  Eremomela badiceps
Protonym:  Sylvia badiceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.144
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rucere1
Type Locality:  Clarence (= Malabo), Fernando Po.
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Publish Year:  1843
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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.

badiceps
L. badius  chestnut-coloured, brown; -ceps  -crowned  < caput, capitis  head.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-crowned Eremomela (fantiensis)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps fantiensis
fantensis / fantiensis / fantisiensis
Fanti or Fantee, Gold Coast / Ghana.

Rufous-crowned Eremomela (badiceps)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps badiceps
badiceps
L. badius  chestnut-coloured, brown; -ceps  -crowned  < caput, capitis  head.

Rufous-crowned Eremomela (latukae)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps latukae
latukae
Latuka, a people of the southern Sudan.