Black-faced Warbler

Here the details of the Black-faced Warbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Abroscopus schisticeps
Protonym:  Culicipeta schisticeps Cat.Mamm.BirdsNepalThibet[Gray,JE&Gray,GR] p.67,153
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Abroscopus
Taxonomy Code:  blfwar1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Gray, JE & Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ABROSCOPUS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Warbler A. superciliaris) Gr. αβρος abros  delicate, graceful; σκοπος skopos  seeker  < σκοπεω skopeō  to examine; "Genus ABROSCOPUS, nom. nov.  Abrornis auct., e.g. Stuart Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind. Birds, vol. ii, p. 293, Apl. 1924; not Abrornis Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844. Only species determinable = Regulus modestus, a synonym of Phylloscopus.  Not Abrornis Hodgs., type designated by Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 35, 1855: A. erochroa = a synonym of Phylloscopus pulcher" (Stuart Baker 1930) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Abroscopus Stuart Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 192. Type, by subsequent designation (Hartert and Steinbacher, 1934, Vögel Pal. Fauna, Ergänzungsband, p. 239), Abrornis superciliaris Blyth." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 263) (see Abrornis).
Synon. Abrornis.

schisticeps
Late L. schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split; L. -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.
● ex “Echenilleur à calotte grise” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1842 (Edolisoma).

SUBSPECIES

Black-faced Warbler (schisticeps)
SCI Name: Abroscopus schisticeps schisticeps
schisticeps
Late L. schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split; L. -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.
● ex “Echenilleur à calotte grise” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1842 (Edolisoma).

Black-faced Warbler (flavimentalis)
SCI Name: Abroscopus schisticeps flavimentalis
flavimentalis
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin.

Black-faced Warbler (ripponi)
SCI Name: Abroscopus schisticeps ripponi
ripponi
Lt.-Col. George Rippon (1861-1927) British Army in India and Burma 1880-1914 (subsp. Abroscopus schisticeps, subsp. Actinodura egertoni, syn. Carpodacus verreauxii, subsp. Certhia himalayana, subsp. Fulvetta vinipectus, Liocichla, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Pericrocotus ethologus, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, syn. Prunella collaris nipalensis, subsp. Suthora nipalensis).