Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler

Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler / Napothera danjoui

Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler

Here the details of the Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Napothera danjoui
Protonym:  Rimator danjoui Ibis p.579
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae /
Taxonomy Code:  stsbab1
Type Locality:  Lang Biam Mountains, Vietnam
Author:  
Publish Year:  1919
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

NAPOTHERA
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Eye-browed Wren-babbler N. epilepidota) Gr. ναπος napos  ravine, gully  < ναπη napē  dell; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "Hier von Java ein neuer Myophoneus - Napothera nenne ich ein Geschlecht, gegen welches Niemand etwas wird sagen können und wofür ich als typus Myothera lepidocephala Kuhl nenne." (Boie 1832) (nom. nud.); "NAPOTHERA, Boie (1835).  Myiothera, Temm.  N. epilepidota (Temm.), Boie. Pl. col. 448. f. 2." (G. Gray 1842).
Var. Nopothera.
Synon. Corythocichla, Lanioturdinus, Turdinulus.

danjoui
François André Gustave Abel Danjou (1874-1966) French diplomat, Vice-Consul in Shanghai 1906-1916, Consul in Singapore 1916-1923, Consul in Canton 1925-1929 (Rimator).

SUBSPECIES

Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler (danjoui)
SCI Name: Napothera danjoui danjoui
danjoui
François André Gustave Abel Danjou (1874-1966) French diplomat, Vice-Consul in Shanghai 1906-1916, Consul in Singapore 1916-1923, Consul in Canton 1925-1929 (Rimator).

Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler (parvirostris)
SCI Name: Napothera danjoui parvirostris
parvirostris
L. parvus  small; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Pato pico pequeño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 432 (syn. Anas sibilatrix).
● "54.  Tetrao, L.   141. urogallus, L.  (major, Br.  crassirostris, Brehm.  hybridus, L. cum Lyr. tetrice.  medius, Leisl.  intermedius, Langsd.  pseudourogallus, Brehm.  maculatus, Brehm.  urogalloides, Nilss.)   142. parvirostris, Bp.  (urogalloides, Middend.)" (Bonaparte 1856).  According to Mlíkovsky 2012, "the Black-billed Capercaillie should be called Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff, 1853, not Tetrao parvirostris Bonaparte, 1856." (syn. Tetrao urogalloides).