White-faced Robin

SCI Name:  Tregellasia leucops
Protonym:  Leucophantes leucops Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 7(1875) p.921 ["p.192"]
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Tregellasia
Taxonomy Code:  whfrob1
Type Locality:  Profi and Mori (= Mt. Moari), Arfak Mountains.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TREGELLASIA
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Pale-yellow Robin T. capito) Thomas Henry Tregellas (1864-1938) Australian field ornithologist; "684. TREGELLASIA, gen. nov.  Differs from Pœcilodryas in its shorter wider bill, weaker legs and feet and different wing formula.   Type, Eopsaltria capito Gould." (Mathews 1912).

leucops
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, eye.

SUBSPECIES

White-faced Robin (leucops)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops leucops
leucops
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, eye.

White-faced Robin (mayri)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops mayri
mayri
Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (syn. Aerodramus hirundinaceus, subsp. Amblyornis macgregoriae, subsp. Athene brama, syn. Burhinus oedicnemus indicus, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Cinclosoma castanotum, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Ficedula westermanni, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, subsp. Lonchura spectabilis, subsp. Megalaima virens, syn. Mixornis gularis rubicapilla, subsp. Mulleripicus funebris, syn. Phonygammus keraudrenii purpureoviolaceus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, Ptiloprora, subsp. Ptilorrhoa leucosticta, Rallicula, syn. Rhinortha chlorophaea, subsp. Roraimia adusta, subsp. Sarcophanops steerii, subsp. Tregellasia leucops, subsp. Trugon terrestris, subsp. Turnix maculosus, subsp. Zapornia pusilla).

White-faced Robin (nigroorbitalis)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops nigroorbitalis
nigroorbitalis
L. niger black; Med. L. orbitalis orbital < L. orbita wheel-mark < orbis circle, ring.

White-faced Robin (heurni)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops heurni
heurni
Dr Willem Cornelis Jonkheer van Heurn (1887-1972) Dutch zoologist, botanist, educationalist, collector in Suriname 1911, New Guinea 1920-1921, and the Dutch East Indies 1924-1939 (subsp. Lonchura grandis, syn. Pseudorectes ferrugineus holerythrus, subsp. Tregellasia leucops).

White-faced Robin (nigriceps)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops nigriceps
nigriceps
L. niger  black; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

White-faced Robin (melanogenys)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops melanogenys
melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenius / melanogenys
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.

White-faced Robin (wahgiensis)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops wahgiensis
wahgiensis
Wahgi River, Papua New Guinea.

White-faced Robin (albifacies)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops albifacies
albifacies
L. albus  white; facies  countenance, appearance.

White-faced Robin (auricularis)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops auricularis
auriculare / auricularis
Med. L. auricularis  ear, eared  < L. auricula  ear  < dim. auris  ear.
● ex “Oricou” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 9 < French oreille  ear; cou  neck (syn. Torgos tracheliotus).

White-faced Robin (albigularis)
SCI Name: Tregellasia leucops albigularis
albigulare / albigularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated  < L. gula  throat.
● “Hellmayr proposed Automulus roraimae as a new name for Philydor albigularis Salvin and Godman on grounds that it was a homonym of Philydor albogularis Spix ... 1824 ... however under the International Rules albigularis and albogularis are different names” (Peters VII 1951); “Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Art. 58 (8) these two names are homonymous variable spellings and under Arts. 57 and 59 (a) primary homonyms, so Hellmayr was correct and Vaurie was wrong” (Eisennann in Vaurie 1980) (syn. Automolus roraimae).