Gray Ground-Thrush

Here the details of the Gray Ground-Thrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Geokichla princei
Protonym:  Chamaetylas princei Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1873) (1873), Pt3 p.625
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Geokichla
Taxonomy Code:  grygrt1
Type Locality:  Denkera, in the interior of Fantee.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GEOKICHLA
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-headed Thrush G. citrina) Gr. γεω- geō- ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; "Vogels.   ...   Geo-Kichla singularis." (Macklot 1830) (nom. nud.); "Myiothera loricata, MULL., pl. V. fig. 5.  Behoort tot de afdeeling der grootere soorten van vliegenjagers, bij welke de staart iets meer verlengd is, en die door geheele gedaante reeds sterk tot de lijsters (Turdi) naderen. Tusschen hen en dit laatste geslacht staat het genus: Geokichla BOIE, waarvan de Turdus citrinus LATH. de typus is." (S. Müller 1835); "Geokichla Müller, 1835, Tijdschr. Natuur. Gesch. Phys., 2, pl. 3, p. 348.  Type, by original designation, Turdus citrinus Latham." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 144). 
Synon. Cryptocichla, Geocichloides, Pseudoturdus, Turdulus.

geokichla
Gr. γεω- geō-  ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush.

princei
Edwin Charles Prince (1809-1874) English naturalist, secretary and business manager to John Gould (Geokichla).

SUBSPECIES

Gray Ground-Thrush (Prince's)
SCI Name: Geokichla princei princei
princei
Edwin Charles Prince (1809-1874) English naturalist, secretary and business manager to John Gould (Geokichla).

Gray Ground-Thrush (Bates's)
SCI Name: Geokichla princei batesi
batesi / batesiana
● George Latimer Bates (1863-1940) US planter, ornithologist, collector in Gabon, French Congo and the Cameroons 1895-1928 (syn. Accipiter erythropus, syn. Alcedo leucogaster, Apus, subsp. Aviceda cuculoides, syn. Baeopogon indicator, syn. Batis minor erlangeri, syn. Campethera punctuligera, syn. Canirallus oculeus, Caprimulgus, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, syn. Dendropicos obsoletus, subsp. Dryotriorchis spectabilis, syn. Euplectes axillaris bocagei, subsp. Geokichla princei, syn. Hieraaetus ayresii, subsp. Iduna natalensis, subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri, syn. Lanius meridionalis elegans, syn. Merops muelleri, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Muscicapa sethsmithi, subsp. Oreocossypha isabellae, Ploceus, syn. Sarothrura pulchra, syn. Spizaetus africanus, syn. Sylvietta denti, Terpsiphone, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).
● Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist, entomologist who developed the theory of Batesian mimicry, explorer and collector in Amazonia 1848-1859 (subsp. Melidectes ochromelas).