Striated Thornbill

SCI Name:  Acanthiza lineata
Protonym:  Acanthiza lineata Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 pl.59
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Acanthiza
Taxonomy Code:  strtho1
Type Locality:  Sydney, New South Wales.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ACANTHIZA
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ Brown Thornbill A. pusilla) Gr. ακανθεων akantheōn  thorn-brake  < ακανθα akantha  thorn  < ακη akē  point; ζαω zaō  to inhabit, to live  < ζω zō  to live; "Genus ACANTHIZA *.  Rostrum gracile, breve, rectum, basi subdepressum, apice compressum, culmine apicem versus leviter arcuato; mandibula superiori subemarginata; naribus linearibus, longitudinalibus, supra membrana tectis, setis plumulisque partim opertis; rictu setis parce instructo.  Alæ subbreves, rotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda et tertia gradatim longioribus, quarta longissima, secunda et decima æqualibus.  Pedes graciles, acrotarsiis paratarsiisque integris.  Cauda mediocris, apice subrotundata.   This group is closely connected with that of Malurus. The construction of the wings and legs is the same, and their habits, as far as we can learn, are similar. But the soft, lengthened, and graduated tail, which gives a striking character to the typical species of Malurus, is wanting in the present group, in which the tail is short and rounded.   ...   As in all similar cases of groups thus approximating to each other, we fix our attention on the typical species chiefly of each, which in the present instance may be considered to be Malurus Lamberti and Acanthiza pusilla.   ...   Like the Reguli they appear to be the inhabitants of bushes and low scrubs.   1. NANA.   ...   2. REGULOIDES.   ...   3. FRONTALIS.   ...   4. PYRRHOPYGIA.   ...   5. PUSILLA.   ...   6. BUCHANANI.   ...   *Aκανθεων dumetum, and ζαω vivo." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827).  
Var. Ancathiza, Acanthisa.
Synon. Geobasileus, Milligania, Subacanthiza.

lineata
L. lineatus  marked with lines, lined  < linea  line  < linum  thread  < Gr. λινον linon  flax, linen.
● ex “Pitpit à coëffe bleue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Blue-striped Warbler” of Latham 1783 (Dacnis).
● ex “Lineated Pheasant” of Latham 1823 (Lophura).
● ex “Fourmilier grivelé de Cayenne” (= ♀) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 823, fig. 1, “Petit béfroi” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Speckled Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Sclateria naevia).
● ex “Radiated Grosbeak” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Sporophila americana).

SUBSPECIES

Striated Thornbill (alberti)
SCI Name: Acanthiza lineata alberti
alberti
● Capt. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) Australian Army, explorer, collector, ornithologist (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Acanthiza lineata). 
● Revd. Fr. Albert Nagnzaun (1777-1856) Benedictine Abbot of St. Peter's Monastery, Salzburg 1818-1856, theologian, naturalist (Jan van der Brugge in litt.) (syn. Anas platyrhynchos).
● Albert Stewart Meek (1871-1943) English explorer, collector in New Guinea, the Solomons and Australia (subsp. Eudynamys orientalis, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, syn. Pachycephala simplex sudestensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris, syn. Zosterops rendovae).
● Franz August Karl Albrecht Emanuel Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony (1819-1861), commonly known as Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria (Crax, subsp. Lophorina magnifica, Menura).
● Albert I Leopold Clemens Maria Meinrad King of the Belgians (1875-1934; reigned 1909-1934) (Prionops).
● Friedrich August Albrecht Anton Ferdinand King of Saxony (1828-1902; reigned 1873-1902) (Pteridophora).

Striated Thornbill (lineata)
SCI Name: Acanthiza lineata lineata
lineata
L. lineatus  marked with lines, lined  < linea  line  < linum  thread  < Gr. λινον linon  flax, linen.
● ex “Pitpit à coëffe bleue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Blue-striped Warbler” of Latham 1783 (Dacnis).
● ex “Lineated Pheasant” of Latham 1823 (Lophura).
● ex “Fourmilier grivelé de Cayenne” (= ♀) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 823, fig. 1, “Petit béfroi” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Speckled Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Sclateria naevia).
● ex “Radiated Grosbeak” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Sporophila americana).

Striated Thornbill (clelandi)
SCI Name: Acanthiza lineata clelandi
clelandi
Prof. Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971) Australian pathologist, mycologist, ornithologist (subsp. Acanthiza lineata, syn. Acanthiza nana, subsp. Anthochaera carunculata, syn. Chlamydera maculata, syn. Cincloramphus cruralis, syn. Emblema pictum, syn. Gavicalis versicolor, subsp. Geopelia placida, ‡subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, syn. Manorina flavigula obscura, syn. Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, syn. Oreoica gutturalis).

Striated Thornbill (whitei)
SCI Name: Acanthiza lineata whitei
whitei
● Capt. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) Australian Army, explorer, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Acanthiza lineata, syn. Aphelocephala leucopsis, syn. Ashbyia lovensis, syn. Barnardius zonarius, syn. Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris, syn. Dasyornis broadbenti, syn. Manorina melanocephala, syn. Phalacrocorax varius, syn. Platalea flavipes, syn. Polytelis swainsonii, syn. Porzana fluminea, syn. Psitteuteles versicolor, syn. Ptilotula penicillata, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, syn. Tribonyx ventralis, syn. Tyto novaehollandiae).
● Henry Luke White (1860-1927) Australian philatelist, oologist, collector (subsp. Amytornis striatus, Falcunculus).
● Charles Matthew Newton White (1914-1978) British colonial administrator in Northern Rhodesia/ Zambia, ornithologist, anthropologist, linguist (subsp. Apalis thoracica, syn. Prodotiscus regulus, syn. Pternistis squamatus).
● Alfred Henry Ebsworth White (1901-1964) Australian field-naturalist, son of collector Henry L. White (see Lacustroica) (Conopophila).
● Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855-1931) British colonial administrator in Burma 1878-1905, Lt.-Gov. of Burma 1905-1910 (subsp. Cyornis banyumas).
● Samuel White (1835-1880) English settler in Australia (1842), collector, explorer, father of Samuel A. White (syn. Glycichaera fallax poliocephala, syn. Malurus splendens callainus, syn. Malurus splendens melanotus).
● Revd. Gilbert White (1720-1793) English naturalist, antiquarian, author (syn. Zoothera aurea).
● See: whiteae