Atrichornis rufescens ferrieri Schodde & Mason, 1999 (1 Viewer)

[Taphrospilus]

Atrichornis rufescens ferrieri Schodde & Mason, 1999 OD here

Ultrataxa: Ferrier (1984) found that northern populations (NSW/Qld border ranges to Gibraltar Range, NSW) different from the southern (Dorrigo region to Barrington Tops, NSW) as described above.

The southern form, hitherto not formally described, is named after Simon Ferrier who first drew attention to its distinctive features.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Rufous Scrub-bird ssp. Atrichornis rufescens ferrieri Schodde & Mason, 1999
Dr Simon Ferrier is an Australian entomologist and environmentalist. The University of Queensland awarded his bachelor's degree (1978) and the University of England NSW his doctorate (1984). He worked the Department of Environment and Climate Change, New South Wales (1985–2008) and then joined CSIRO, Canberra.

The Key to Scientific Names

Dr Simon Ferrier (fl. 2008) Australian scientist, environmentalist (subsp. Atrichornis rufescens).

More on him we can read here with picture. His Ph. D. thesis was The status of the Rufous scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens : habitat, geographical variation and abundance