Hypergerus Atriceps Bird

Hypergerus Atriceps Bird

Hypergerus Atriceps Bird

English Name:  Oriole Warbler
Latin Name:  Hypergerus atriceps
Protonym:  Moho atriceps TraitedOrn. livr.8 p.646
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Hypergerus
Taxonomy Code:  oriwar2
Type Locality:  Des iles de la mer du Sud; error: Gold Coast (= Ghana), fide Bannerman and Bates, 1924, Ibis, p. 244.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYPERGERUS
(Cisticolidae; Oriole Warbler H. atriceps) Gr. ὑπεργηρως hupergērōs  ancient, extremely old  < ὑπερ huper  exceeding; γηρας gēras, γηρως gērōs  old age; alluding to the silver-haired appearance of the Oriole Warbler.  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LIV, labelled Turdinae: Pycnonotinae, illustrates the scaly head of this large warbler; "Hypergerus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Systema Naturale, pl. LIV (no specific names given).  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 44), Moho atriceps Lesson, 1831." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Hypochloreus.

atriceps
L. ater  black; -ceps  -capped, -headed  < caput, capitis  head.