Hyliota Usambara Bird

Hyliota Usambara Bird

Hyliota Usambara Bird

English Name:  Usambara Hyliota
Latin Name:  Hyliota usambara
Protonym:  Hyliota australis usambara Bull.Br.Orn.Club 52 p. 104
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hyliotidae / Hyliota
Taxonomy Code:  usahyl1
Type Locality:  Amani, Usambara district, Tanganyika; altitude 3,000 feet.
Author:  Sclater, WL
Publish Year:  1932
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

HYLIOTA
(Hyliotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Hyliota H. flavigaster) Gr. ὑλειωτης huleiōtēs forester, an epithet of Pan  < ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; "Hyliota, Sw. (fig. 229.h)   Bill lengthened, very slightly widened at the base, and much compressed beyond the nostrils.  Rictus nearly smooth.  Wings, tail, and feet as in Muscicapa; but the middle toe is shorter, and the claws are broader, thicker, and much more curved.   Africa: representing Platystera.    H. flavigaster. West. Af. ii." (Swainson 1837); "Hyliota Swainson, 1837 (June or July), Nat. Hist. Class. Birds, 2, p. 260, fig. 229h.  Type, by original designation, Hyliota flavigaster Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 219).
Var. Hyliotis.

usambara / usambarae / usambarica / usambaricus
Usambara Mts. or Usambara District, German East Africa (= Tanganyika = Tanzania).