White-browed Woodswallow

White-browed Woodswallow / Artamus superciliosus

White-browed Woodswallow

Here the details of the White-browed Woodswallow named bird below:

SCI Name:  Artamus superciliosus
Protonym:  Ocypterus superciliosus Syn.BirdsAustr. pt1 pl.1 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whbwoo5
Type Locality:  'Interior of New South Wales'' = Hunter River.
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Publish Year:  1837
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DEFINITIONS

ARTAMUS
(Artamidae; Ϯ White-breasted Woodswallow A. leucoryn) Gr. αρταμος artamos  butcher, murderer; the woodswallows were formerly known as swallow-shrikes, combining the characters of swallows and shrikes or butcherbirds (see Enneoctonus and Lanius); "129. LANGRAIEN, Artamus.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre à la base, très-lisse, longicône, un peu robuste, convexe en dessus, un peu comprimé latéralement vers la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu fléchie en arc, échancrée vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes sans penne bâtarde, alongées; la première remige la plus longue.   Esp. Langraien, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Artamus Vieillot, 1816 (April), Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, Langraien (Buffon) = Lanius leucorhynchus Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 161).
Var. Artamusete.
Synon. Angroyan, Austrartamus, Campbellornis, Cataphania, Langrayen, Leptopteryx, Micrartamus, Ocypterus, Pseudartamus.

superciliosa / superciliosum / superciliosus
L. superciliosus  supercilious, haughty, eye-browed  < supercilium  eyebrow.
● ex “Supercilious Duck” of Latham 1785 (Anas).
● ex “Little Green and Orange-coloured Kingfisher” of Edwards 1758 (syn. Chloroceryle aenea).
● ex “Gorge-jaune de Saint-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 686, fig. 1 (syn. Dendroica dominica).
● ex “Rousseau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 66 (Lanius).
● ex “Apiaster madagascariensis” or “Guespier de Madagascar” of Brisson 1760 (Merops).
● ex “Yellow-browed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Phylloscopus humei).
● ex “Supercilious Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).