The Key to Scientific Names
- 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).