Yellow-throated Laughingthrush

Here the details of the Yellow-throated Laughingthrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ianthocincla galbana
Protonym:  Garrulax galbanus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.44 pl.10
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Ianthocincla
Taxonomy Code:  yetlau1
Type Locality:  Manipur.
Author:  Godwin-Austen
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ianthocincla
(syn. Garrulax Ϯ Spotted Laughingthrush G. ocellatus) Gr. ιονθος ionthos  young hair, down; Mod. L. cinclus  thrush  < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos  unidentified small waterside bird; "IANTHOCINCLA  ...  Typus genericus. Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vig.  Montium Himalayæ Incolæ.   The chief distinguishing characteristics of the genus Ianthocincla are the comparative length of the tarsus; the length of the hinder toe, and the great length of the claw by which it is terminated; the roundness, concavity, softness, and yielding character of the wings and tail; and the peculiar fullness, lightness, and downiness of the whole of the plumage, and particularly of that of the back and rump. The downy nature of the covering is alluded to in the generic name." (Gould 1835).   Var. Janthocincla, Xanthocincla, Yantocincla, Zanthocincla.

galbana
L. galbanus  greenish-yellow  < galbanum  gum resin, galbanum  < Gr. χαλβανη khalbanē  gum resin.