Rufous-vented Grass Babbler

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler / Laticilla burnesii

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler

Here the details of the Rufous-vented Grass Babbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Laticilla burnesii
Protonym:  Eu[rycercus]. Burnesii J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 13 p.374
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ruvpri1
Type Locality:  Indus territories.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

LATICILLA
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Rufous-vented Grass-babbler L. burnesii) L. latus  wide, broad (see Eurycercus); Mod. L. cilla  tail (see Motacilla); "Laticilla, nobis (olim Eurycercus, J.A.S. XIII, 374, which name cannot be retained, as it was previously applied to a genus of Entomostraca by Dr. W. Baird, in the An. and Mag. Nat. Hist., February, 1843, p. 88)" (Blyth 1845). The birds in this genus were formerly known as prinias.
Synon. Eurycercus.

burnesii
Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) British political officer in India 1829-1832, and Afghanistan 1839-1841 (syn. Gallinula chloropus, Laticilla, ?syn. Pterocles alchata).

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler (burnesii)
SCI Name: Laticilla burnesii burnesii
burnesii
Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) British political officer in India 1829-1832, and Afghanistan 1839-1841 (syn. Gallinula chloropus, Laticilla, ?syn. Pterocles alchata).

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler (nepalicola)
SCI Name: Laticilla burnesii nepalicola
nepalicola
Nepal; L. -cola  -dweller  < colere  to inhabit.