White-streaked Friarbird / Melitograis gilolensis

White-streaked Friarbird / Melitograis gilolensis

White-streaked Friarbird

SCI Name:  Melitograis gilolensis
Protonym:  Tropidorhynchus gilolensis Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.390
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whsfri1
Type Locality:  Gilolo [= Halmahera] Island.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

MELITOGRAIS
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ White-streaked Friarbird M. gilolensis) Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos  honey; γραις grais, γραιδος graidos  old woman (i.e. old honey-seller); "Melitograis n. g. (striata nob. fusca rhachidibus in capite corporeque, præsertim anteriore, albis. Ala 102 mm. —  Similis videtur Anthoch. seni. Gray Z. Pr. 1860, 349, sed pennæ alarum non apice albæ). Rostrum capite multo longius, crassiusculum, culmine frontem versus paullum elevato, postremo depresso, angulum frontalem rotundatum, latiorem formante. Rhachides pilei totius rigidi, albi. Orbita et tempora nuda. Cauda minus elongata, leviter rotundata et subemarginata. Nares longæ, valvula supera magna. Media fere inter Anthochæras et Philedones. — "Ex nova Guinea".  Nomen: μελι, mel, et γραις, vetula (qs. mellaria)." (Sundevall 1872); "Melitograis Sundevall, 1872, Method. Av. Tentam., p. 50. Type, by monotypy, Melitograis striata Sundevall = Tropidorhynchus gilolensis Bonaparte." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 403).

gilolensis / giloloensis / gilolonis
Gilolo I., Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Halmahera, Indonesia.