Sooty Myzomela

Here the details of the Sooty Myzomela named bird below:

SCI Name:  Myzomela tristrami
Protonym:  Myzomela Tristrami Proc.Linn.Soc.NewS.Wales 6 p.178
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code:  soomyz1
Type Locality:  Solomon Islands ; restricted to San Christobal by Mayr, 1932, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 516, p. 29.
Author:  Ramsay, EP
Publish Year:  1881
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYZOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Scarlet Myzomela M. sanguinolenta) Gr. μυζαω muzaō  to suck; μελι meli  honey; "This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group [Meliphagidae], as marking the passage to the Cinnyridæ ...  this type of form may be generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species.  Genus. MYZOMELA.  Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato; naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longitudine æquantibus.  Lingua, alæ, pedesque iidem fere ut in Meliphagis veris.  Cauda subbrevis, æqualis" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myzomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 318 [=316]. Type, by original designation, Meliphaga cardinalis Vigors and Horsfield = Certhia sanguinolenta Latham." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 350).
Var. Mysomela.
Synon. Cosmeteira, Melomyza.    

tristrami / tristramii
Revd. Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906) Canon of Durham, traveller, naturalist, antiquarian, early supporter of Darwin (syn. Coenocorypha aucklandica, Dicaeum, syn. Edolisoma salomonis (ex Edoliisoma salomonis Tristram, 1879), Emberiza, Hydrobates, subsp. Micropsitta finschii, Myzomela, Onychognathus, ‡subsp. Ptilinopus mercierii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).