Long-billed White-eye

Long-billed White-eye / Rukia longirostra

Long-billed White-eye

Here the details of the Long-billed White-eye named bird below:

SCI Name:  Rukia longirostra
Protonym:  Cinnyrorhyncha longirostra Dobutsu.Zasshi 43 p.599
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Zosteropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lbweye2
Type Locality:  Ponape.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1931
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

RUKIA
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Teardrop White-eye R. ruki) Ruk I., Caroline Is. "Rukia, gen. nov.  (Plate VII. fig. 5.)  (Zosteropidæ)   Description.—  Bill very strong, blackish; tarsus and toes also strong, orange colour not black or brown; silky eye-ring on lower edge of eyelid only.  Type.— Tephras ruki Hartert, 1897 = Rikia [sic] ruki from Ruk, Caroline Islands." (Momiyama 1922).
Var. Rikia.
Synon. Cinnyrorhyncha, Rhamphozosterops.

longirostra
L. longus  long; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Long-billed Creeper” of Latham 1787 (Arachnothera).

Longirostris
(syn. Limnodromus Ϯ Short-billed Dowitcher L. grisea) L. longus  long; -rostris 
-billed  < rostrum  beak; "Longirostris is, I think, preferable to Macroramfus [sic] for the genus Longbeak" (C. T. Wood 1836).    Var. Longirostra (Wood 1837: "Brown Longbeak. Macroramfe ponctue, - Roth M[acroramfe].  Longirostra grisea, Wood.  .. Longbeak, Longirostris, Wood").