Tawny Straightbill

Tawny Straightbill / Timeliopsis griseigula

Tawny Straightbill

Here the details of the Tawny Straightbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Timeliopsis griseigula
Protonym:  Euthyrhynchus griseigula Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 4 p.39
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tawstr1
Type Locality:  Sorong (west coast of Vogelkop Peninsula) and west coast of Geelvink Bay, New Guinea; restricted to Sorong by Mayr, 1941, List New Guinea Birds, p. 190.
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Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TIMELIOPSIS
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Tawny Straightbill T. griseigula) Genus Timelia Sundevall, 1872, babbler; Gr. οψις opsis  appearance; "TIMELIOPSIS novum genus ex familia Timeliidarum; rostrum fere rectum, capite paullo brevius, subacutum vel acutum, naribus linearibus, suboperculatis, in foveis basalibus positis; alae et cauda rotundatae, medicres; pedes mediocres; habitus fere medius inter Pomatorhinum isidorii et Strachyrhim pyropa, Hodgs.   Typus:  Sp. 50. Timeliopsis trachycoma, nov. sp.  ...  Questa specie e la seguente sono notevoli per le piume brevi e rigide della parte anteriore del pileo e specialmente della fronte." (Salvadori 1875); "Timeliopsis Salvadori, 1876, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 7 (1875), p. 963. Type, by original designation, Timeliopsis trachycoma Salvadori = Euthyrhynchus griseigula Schlegel." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 338).
Synon. Euthyrhynchus.

griseigula
Med. L. griseum grey; L. gula throat.

SUBSPECIES

Tawny Straightbill (griseigula)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis griseigula griseigula
griseigula
Med. L. griseum grey; L. gula throat.

Tawny Straightbill (fulviventris)
SCI Name: Timeliopsis griseigula fulviventris
fulviventer / fulviventre / fulviventris
L. fulvus  tawny; venter, ventris  belly.