White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher / Melaenornis fischeri

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher

Here the details of the White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melaenornis fischeri
Protonym:  Dioptrornis Fischeri J.Orn. 32 p.53
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  wheslf1
Type Locality:  Mt. Meru, Tanganyika.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1884
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. MelaehornisMeloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

fischeri
● Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848-1886) German doctor, explorer, collector in tropical Africa 1876-1886 (Agapornis, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Centropus monachus, subsp. Cisticola chiniana, subsp. Cyanomitra veroxii, syn. Eurocephalus rueppelli, subsp. Geokichla guttata, Lamprotornis, Melaenornis, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Phyllastrephus, subsp. Ploceus melanocephalus, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, syn. Scotopelia peli, syn. Sylvietta whytii minima, Tauraco, Vidua).
● George Fischer (fl. 1896) Dutch surgeon, collector in the East Indies (Ramphiculus).
● Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853) German palaeontologist, zoologist in Russia 1804-1853 (Somateria, syn. Syrrhaptes paradoxus).

SUBSPECIES

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher (fischeri)
SCI Name: Melaenornis fischeri fischeri
fischeri
● Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848-1886) German doctor, explorer, collector in tropical Africa 1876-1886 (Agapornis, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Centropus monachus, subsp. Cisticola chiniana, subsp. Cyanomitra veroxii, syn. Eurocephalus rueppelli, subsp. Geokichla guttata, Lamprotornis, Melaenornis, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Phyllastrephus, subsp. Ploceus melanocephalus, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, syn. Scotopelia peli, syn. Sylvietta whytii minima, Tauraco, Vidua).
● George Fischer (fl. 1896) Dutch surgeon, collector in the East Indies (Ramphiculus).
● Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853) German palaeontologist, zoologist in Russia 1804-1853 (Somateria, syn. Syrrhaptes paradoxus).

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher (toruensis)
SCI Name: Melaenornis fischeri toruensis
toruensis
Toru District / Toro, Uganda.

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher (nyikensis)
SCI Name: Melaenornis fischeri nyikensis
nyika / nyikae / nyikensis
Nyika Plateau or Highlands, northern Nyasaland / Malawi.

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher (semicinctus)
SCI Name: Melaenornis fischeri semicinctus
semicincta / semicinctus
L. semi-  half-, semi-  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; cinctus girdled  < cingere  to encircle.