The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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borealis

L. borealis  northern  < boreas  north wind, north  < Gr. βορεας boreas  north wind, north. This epithet refers not only to northern latitudes but also to a distribution or range north of previously known forms.
● King George Bay, Alaska; ex “Boreal Sandpiper” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aphriza virgata).
● Carolina; ex “American Buzzard” of Latham 1781, and “Red-tailed Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (subsp. Buteo jamaicensis).
● Erroneous TL. Northern United States (= South Carolina) (Leuconotopicus).
● Erroneous TL. "Kamtschatka" (= Princes I., Java); ex “Rusty-headed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Orthotomus sepium).
● Erroneous TL. Iceland (= Norway) (subsp. Poecile montanus).


glacioborealis

L. glacies  ice; borealis  northern  < boreas  north  < Gr. βορεας boreas  north.


pseudoborealis

Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false; specific name Phyllopneuste borealis Blasius, 1858; "50. PHYLLOSCOPUS PSEUDO-BOREALIS, Sev.  ...  While collecting I mistook this bird for P. borealis, Blas., to which it is very closely allied, differing particularly in having a much longer first primary, which is about ·6".  The second primary equals the seventh, rarely a little longer or shorter.  In the primary quills, and them alone, it agrees with P. viridanus, Blyth, and P. plumbeitarsus, Swinhoe; but all its other characters, such as size, proportions, bill, and colouring, are those of P. borealis." (Severtzov 1883) (syn. Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus, syn. Phylloscopus trochiloides viridanus).


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