Varied Triller

SCI Name:  Lalage leucomela
Protonym:  Campephaga Leucomela Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 15(1826) p.215
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lalage
Taxonomy Code:  vartri1
Type Locality:  Broad Sound, south Queensland.
Author:  Vigors & Horsfield
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LALAGE
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Pied Triller L. nigra) Gr. λαλαξ lalax, λαλαγος lalagos or λαλαγες lalages  unidentified bird mentioned by Hesychius  < λαλαζω lalazō  to chirp or chirrup (cf. this name is also identified with a green tree frog); "IX. Fam.  Myiotheridae.   ...   Lalage: Turdus orientalis Gm. enl. 273 fig. 2. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Lalage Boie, 1826, Isis, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus orientalis Gmelin = Turdus niger Forster." (Mayr in Peters 1960, IX, 196).   
Synon. Acanthinotus, Coquus, Diaphoropterus, Erucivora, Karua, Oscarornis, Oxynotus, Perissolalage, Pseudolalage, Symmorphus.

leucomela
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black (cf. λευκομελας leukomelas  grey).

SUBSPECIES

Varied Triller (keyensis)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela keyensis
keyensis
Key Is., Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Kai or Kei Is., Indonesia.

Varied Triller (polygrammica)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela polygrammica
polygramma / polygrammica / polygrammicum / polygrammus
Gr. πολυγραμμος polugrammos  white-streaked (originally a white-streaked jasper), marked with many stripes  < πολυς polus  much; γραμμη grammē  stroke, writing  < γραφω graphō  to write.

Varied Triller (obscurior)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela obscurior
obscurior / obscuriora
L. obscurior, obscurioris  darker  < comp. obscurus  dark, obscure.

Varied Triller (trobriandi)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela trobriandi
trobriandi
Trobriand Is. (= Kiriwina Is.), Papua New Guinea.

Varied Triller (pallescens)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela pallescens
pallescens
L. pallescens, pallescentis  pale-coloured, yellowish  < pallescere  to turn pale  <  pallere  to be pale.

Varied Triller (falsa)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela falsa
falsa
L. falsus false, wrong, spurious < fallere to lead astray.

Varied Triller (karu)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela karu
karu
“Karu, an aboriginal name. (Mathews, MS)” (Richmond 1917) (subsp. Lalage leucomela).

Varied Triller (albidior)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela albidior
albidior
L. albidior, albidioris  more whitish, whiter  < comp. albidus  whitish   < albus  white.

Varied Triller (ottomeyeri)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela ottomeyeri
ottomeyeri
Fr. P. Rudolf Otto Maria Meyer (1877-1937) German missionary to the Bismarck Archipelago 1902-1937 (subsp. Lalage leucomela, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis, subsp. Zosterops griseotinctus).

Varied Triller (tabarensis)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela tabarensis
tabarensis
Tabar I., Tabar Group, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.

Varied Triller (sumunae)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela sumunae
sumunae
Sumuna Plantation, Dyaul I., New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago.

Varied Triller (macrura)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela macrura
macroura / macrouros / macrourus / macrura
Gr. μακρος makros  long; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.
● ex “Coliou de l’isle Panay” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Colius striatus).
● ex “Long-tailed Finch” of Latham 1783 (syn. Emberizoides herbicola).
● ex “Guainumbi” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Mellivora avis maxima” of Sloane 1725, “Mellisuga cayenensis, cauda bifurca” of Brisson 1760, “Oiseau-mouche à longue queue couleur d’acier brune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Cayenne forktailed Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (Eupetomena).
● ex "Long-tailed Grosbeak" of Latham 1783 (Euplectes).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à longue queue de Gingi” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Long-tailed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Kittacincla malabarica).
● ex “Petite Fauvette tachetée du cap de bonne espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 752, fig. 2, and “Great-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Prinia maculosa).
● ex “Coliou hupé du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Urocolius).
● "92. COLUMBA.  ...  macroura.  16. C. cauda cuneiformi longa, pectore purpurascente.  Columba macroura. Edw. av. 15. t. 15.  Palumbus migratorius. Catesb. car. I. p. 23. t. 23 [= Ectopistes].  Habitat in Canada; hybernat in Carolina." (Linnaeus 1758) (Zenaida).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à tête bleue de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (unident.).

Varied Triller (rufiventris)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela rufiventris
rufiventer / rufiventra / rufiventre / rufiventris
Mod. L. rufiventris  red-bellied  < L. rufus  ruddy, rufous; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Pepoazá vientre roxizo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 205, and “Pepoaza à ventre rougeâtre” of Vieillot 1819 (Neoxolmis).
● ex “Grignet” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 126 (syn. Parisoma subcaeruleum).
● ex “Traquet à Cul Roux” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 188, fig. 2 (syn. Saxicoloides fulicatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 572, fig. 3, and “Rufous-vented Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “Velvet-headed Flycatcher” of Latham 1823 (Terpsiphone).

Varied Triller (yorki)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela yorki
yorki
Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia.
● York, Western Australia (syn. Lichmera indisticta).

Varied Triller (leucomela)
SCI Name: Lalage leucomela leucomela
leucomela
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black (cf. λευκομελας leukomelas  grey).