Gurney’s Pitta

Gurney\'s Pitta / Hydrornis gurneyi

Gurney's Pitta

Here the details of the Gurney's Pitta named bird below:

SCI Name:  Hydrornis gurneyi
Protonym:  Pitta Gurneyi Str.Feath. 3 p.296 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gurpit1
Type Locality:  southern Tenasserim.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1875
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DEFINITIONS

HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-   < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).   
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.

gurneyi
John Henry Gurney, Sr. (1819-1890) English banker, MP, ornithologist specialising in raptors, founder member of BOU (syn. Accipiter brevipes, syn. Anaplectes rubricepsAquila, subsp. Aviceda subcristata, syn. Falco cherrug milvipesGeokichla, Hydrornis, Mimizuku, syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus ruficollis, syn. Podiceps nigricollisPromerops).