Eremomela Turneri Bird

English Name:  Turner's Eremomela
Latin Name:  Eremomela turneri
Protonym:  Eremomela badiceps turneri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 40 p.92
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Eremomela
Taxonomy Code:  turere1
Type Locality:  Yala River, northern Kavirondo, Kenya.
Author:  van Someren
Publish Year:  1920
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

EREMOMELA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Eremomela E. icteropygialis) Gr. ερημος erēmos  desert; μελος melos  song, melody; "23. Eremomela (n. g.) flaviventris ("Sylvia flaviventris Burch." Wahlb.) in schedulis   ...   Hab. in Caffraria superiore, campestri et sylvatica.   Char. generis.  Ala mediocris, vix fornicata, pennis 1—3 gradatis, prima brevi; 3=4.  Rostrum subulatum, acutum, vix incisum (fere Sylviæ trochili), vibrissis obsoletis; naribus Sylviæ.  Tarsi scutati; digiti laterales æquales.  Cauda brevior, leviter emarginata, pennis angustioribus.— Sp. inter Sylvias et Zosteropes mediæ; similes Acanthizis, sed minus pictæ.  A Phyllopneustis præcipue differunt vibrissis vix ullis, rostro acutiore, cauda breviore, linea superciliari non distincta, vel saltem non flava.  Radices nominis: Eρημος, desertum; μελος, carmen, hinc Eremomela, deserti cantor." (Sundevall 1850); "Eremomela Sundevall, 1850, Öfversigt K. Vetenskaps-Akad. Förhandlingar, Stockholm, 7, p. 102. Type, by original designation, Sylvia flaviventris Burchell [1822 nec Sylvia flaviventris Vieillot, 1817] = Sylvietta icteropygialis Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 196).   
Var. Erenomela.   
Synon. Baeoscelis, Dryodromas, Eremomeloides, Magalilais, Tricholais.

turneri
● Henry John Allen Turner (1876-1953) British pioneer settler in Kenya 1909-1953, warden and taxidermist (syn. Anthus leucophrys zenkeri, subsp. Colius leucocephalus, Eremomela).
● “Dédiée à M. Turner, naturaliste anglais” (Bourcier 1846) (syn. Leucippus chionogaster hypoleucus).
● Col. Horace Harrison Turner (1867-1930) British Army engineer, surveyor in India 1897-1915, and Mesopotamia 1915-1916 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Lophura horsfieldii).
● Dr Joseph Turner (d. 1881) English businessman, landowner in Peru (per Beolens et al., 2014; Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Merganetta leucogenis).
● Lucien McShann Turner (1847-1909) US meteorologist, field naturalist, explorer, collector in Peru 1868, Alaska 1874-1881 and Labrador 1883-1884, US Army Signal Service 1881-1886 (subsp. Poecile atricapillus).
● "it was H. W. Turner who discovered, and introduced me to, this bird" (Devas 1953, Bds. British Honduras, 40) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz) (?syn. Vireo pallens).

SUBSPECIES

Turner's Eremomela (kalindei)
Latin Name: Eremomela turneri kalindei
kalindei
Kalinde Musiko (fl. 1958) Congolese hunter, collector for Prigogine (‡subsp. Eremomela turneri, subsp. Kupeornis chapini).

Turner's Eremomela (turneri)
Latin Name: Eremomela turneri turneri
turneri
● Henry John Allen Turner (1876-1953) British pioneer settler in Kenya 1909-1953, warden and taxidermist (syn. Anthus leucophrys zenkeri, subsp. Colius leucocephalus, Eremomela).
● “Dédiée à M. Turner, naturaliste anglais” (Bourcier 1846) (syn. Leucippus chionogaster hypoleucus).
● Col. Horace Harrison Turner (1867-1930) British Army engineer, surveyor in India 1897-1915, and Mesopotamia 1915-1916 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Lophura horsfieldii).
● Dr Joseph Turner (d. 1881) English businessman, landowner in Peru (per Beolens et al., 2014; Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Merganetta leucogenis).
● Lucien McShann Turner (1847-1909) US meteorologist, field naturalist, explorer, collector in Peru 1868, Alaska 1874-1881 and Labrador 1883-1884, US Army Signal Service 1881-1886 (subsp. Poecile atricapillus).
● "it was H. W. Turner who discovered, and introduced me to, this bird" (Devas 1953, Bds. British Honduras, 40) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz) (?syn. Vireo pallens).