Sichuan Tit

Here the details of the Sichuan Tit named bird below:

SCI Name:  Poecile weigoldicus
Protonym:  Parus weigoldicus Berajah p. 19
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Poecile
Taxonomy Code:  sictit1
Type Locality:  Atentze [= Atuntze, now Tehtsin] , northwestern Yunnan.
Author:  Kleinschmidt, O
Publish Year:  1921
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos  unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris.   ...   4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes.   Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder.   L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen.   ...   **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829  M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.

weigoldi / weigoldicus
Dr Max Hugo Weigold (1886-1973) German zoologist, pioneer bird-ringer, collector in China and Tibet (the first European to see a live Giant Panda) (subsp. Alauda gulgula, syn. Carduelis carduelis parva, subsp. Emberiza cioides, syn. Galerida cristata subtaurica, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Lophophanes cristatus, syn. Luscinia svecica, syn. Motacilla citreola calcarata, syn. Nannus troglodytes, subsp. Phylloscopus fuscatus, subsp. Poecile montanus, syn. Poecile montanus weigoldicus, subsp. Schoeniparus brunneus).