Gray-crowned Tetraka

Gray-crowned Tetraka / Xanthomixis cinereiceps

Gray-crowned Tetraka

Here the details of the Gray-crowned Tetraka named bird below:

SCI Name:  Xanthomixis cinereiceps
Protonym:  Oxylabes cinereiceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.197
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Bernieridae /
Taxonomy Code:  gyctet1
Type Locality:  ? Fianarantsoa, Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1881
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DEFINITIONS

XANTHOMIXIS
(Bernieridae; Ϯ Spectacled Tetraka X. zosterops) Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ομμα omma, ομματος ommatos  eye; genus Neomixis Sharpe, 1881, jery (cf. genus Ixos Temminck, 1825, bulbul); "A better arrangement of the genus Bernieria and its allies appears to me to be somewhat as follows  ...   b. Tarso quam culmen longiore.   ...  d'. Vibrissis maximis, usque ad apicem rostri productis; tarsis integris. . . . . Xanthomixis.  ...  4. Xanthomixis zosterops (Sharpe)" (Sharpe 1881) (see Neomixis).
Var. Xanthomixus, Xanthomiscus.

cinereiceps
L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.