White-fronted honeyeater

The white-fronted honeyeater (Purnella albifrons) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia where its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.

White-fronted honeyeater

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Purnella
Mathews, 1914
Species:
P. albifrons
Binomial name
Purnella albifrons
(Gould, 1841)

The white-fronted honeyeater was described by the English bird artist John Gould in 1841 and given the binomial name Glyciphila albifrons.[2] The specific epithet combines albus meaning 'white' with frons meaning 'forehead' or 'front'.[3] The type locality is the town of York in Western Australia.[4] The white-fronted honeyeater was formerly in the genus Phylidonyris,[4] but is now the only species placed in the genus Purnella that had been introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1914, with the white-fronted honeyeater as the type species.[5][6] The generic name was chosen to honour Mathews' friend, the oologist and collector, Herbert A. Purnell.[5][7]

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References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Phylidonyris albifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Gould, John (1840). "Glyciphila albifrons". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 8: 160–161. Although bearing the year 1840 on the title page, the volume did not appear until 1841.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 429.
  5. Mathews, Gregory M. (1914). "New species". Austral Avian Record. 2 (5): 110–116 [111].
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Honeyeaters". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 324. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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