Buff-banded Bushbird
Buff-banded Bushbird
Here the details of the Buff-banded Bushbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Napothera bivittata Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.359
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Cincloramphus
Taxonomy Code: bubbus1
Type Locality: Timor.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CINCLORAMPHUS
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Brown Songlark C. cruralis) Mod. L. cinclus thrush < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos unknown waterside bird; ῥαμφος rhamphos bill; "Genus CINCLORAMPHUS. Bill rather shorter than the head; culmen slightly arched; the tip distinctly notched; the commissure slightly angulated at the base, and somewhat incurved for the remainder of its length; nostrils, lateral, oval; wings moderate, rigid, first quill very long and nearly equal to the second and third, which are the longest; tertials nearly as long as the primaries; tail rather small and cuneiform; tarsi very strong and scutellated anteriorly; toes long and powerful, particularly the hinder one and claw, which is articulated on the same plane with the inner toe; lateral toes nearly equal. Type. Megalurus cruralis, Vig. and Horsf." (Gould 1838); "Cincloramphus Gould, 1838, Synop. Birds Australia, pt. 4, app., p. 4. Type, by original designation, Megalurus cruralis Vigors and Horsfield." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 44).
Var. Cynclorhamphus, Cynchlorhamphus, Cinctorhamphus.
Synon. Dulciornis, Maclennania, Ptenoedus.
bivittata / bivittatus
Mod. L. bivittatus two-banded, two-striped < L. bi- double < bis twice; vittatus banded < vitta ribbon.
● ex “Figuier à tête noire de Cayenne” (= ♂) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 704, fig. 1, and “Sylvia caerulea var. β” of Latham 1790 (syn. Polioptila plumbea).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)