Yellow-browed Oxylabes

Yellow-browed Oxylabes / Crossleyia xanthophrys

Yellow-browed Oxylabes

Here the details of the Yellow-browed Oxylabes named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crossleyia xanthophrys
Protonym:  Oxylabes xanthophrys Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.76
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Bernieridae /
Taxonomy Code:  yeboxy1
Type Locality:  Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1875
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DEFINITIONS

CROSSLEYIA
(Bernieridae; Madagascar Yellowbrow C. xanthophrys) Alfred Crossley (1839-1877) British taxidermist, collector in the Cameroons, Rhodesia and Madagascar 1870-1877; the Madagascar Yellowbrow was formely known as Yellow-browed Foditany; "Crossleyia, Hartl.  ...  Rostrum parvum, breviusculum, rectum, gracile, satis compressum, emarginatum, subcarinatum, apice maxillae leviter deflexo, gonyde dimidio apicali adscendente; naribus operculo subobtectis; vibrissis nonnullis breviusculis, mollibus  ...  Pedes majusculi, satis robusti, tarsis elongatis, totis caligatis  ...  Ptilosis tergi longa, densa, mollis.   106. Crossleyia xanthophrys, (Sh.)  ...  Crossley erlangte diesen Vogel im Innern der Nordhälfte Madagascars." (Hartlaub 1877); "Crossleyia Hartlaub, Vög. Madagas. p. 168, 1877.  Type by monotypy, Oxylabes xanthophrys Sharpe." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 368).
Var. Crossleya.

xanthophrys
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.