Olive Honeyeater

Olive Honeyeater / Lichmera argentauris

Olive Honeyeater

Here the details of the Olive Honeyeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Lichmera argentauris
Protonym:  Ptilotis argentauris Abh.naturwiss.Ver.Bremen 2 p.364
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  olihon1
Type Locality:  'Neu Guinea und die Papu-Inseln'' ; restricted to Waigeu Island by Stresemann, 1912, Novit. Zool., 19, p. 345.
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Publish Year:  1871
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DEFINITIONS

LICHMERA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Brown Honeyeater L. indistincta ocularis) Gr. λιχμηρης likhmērēs  licking with the tongue  < λιχμαω likhmaō  to lick, to dart with the tongue; "Gen. LICHMERA nov. gen.  *) Bürstenzüngler.   633.  1. L. australasiana Nob. — Certhia australasiana Shaw. Gen. Zool. VIII. p. 226.— Certhia pyrrhoptera Lath.?— Melithreptus melanoleucus Vieill.— Meliphaga australasiana Vig. Horsf. Trans. Lin. Soc. XV. p. 313.— id. Gould B. Austr. IV. tab. 27.— Meliphaga inornata Gould. (jun.).    634.  2. L. ocularis Nob.— Glyciphila ocularis Gould Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. p. 154.  id. Birds Austr. IV. tab. 31.— Gylciphila subocularis Gould. (Fem an juv.).   ...  *) Von λιχμηρης, züngelnd, leckerhaft.  Die Gruppe steht in der Bildung zwischen Meliornis und Ptilotis" (Cabanis 1853); "Lichmera Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 118. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38, p. 263), Glyciphila ocularis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 345).
Synon. Stigmatops.

argentauris
L. argentum, argenti  silver; auris  ear.