White-fronted Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Purnella albifrons
Protonym:  Glyciphila albifrons Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.94 p.160
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Purnella
Taxonomy Code:  whfhon1
Type Locality:  Western Australia [= York District, southern Western Australia].
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1841
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PURNELLA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ White-fronted Honeyeater P. albifrons) Herbert A. Purnell (1884-1962) Australian oologist, collector; "p. 267.  From material supplied by Dr. J. Burton Cleland, I find that Gliciphila melanops differs generically from Gliciphila albifrons of my List of the Birds of Australia, pp. 266-267.  I therefore introduce— PURNELLA genus nov.  Type. Gliciphila albifrons Gould.   Differs from Gliciphila Swainson in having a fleshy caruncle on the posterior canthus of the eye, of a deep pinkish flesh-colour.  Named in honour of my friend Herbert A. Purnell, of Geelong." (Mathews 1914).

albifrons
L. albus  white; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.
● ex “White-fronted Owl” of Latham 1787 (syn. Aegolius acadicus).
● ex “White-crowned Parrot” of Latham 1781 (Amazona).
● ex “Cola aguda vientre de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 234 (Donacospiza).
● ex “White-fronted Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Miro australis).
● ex “White-faced Manakin” of Edwards 1764 (Pithys).