Caspian Tit

Caspian Tit / Poecile hyrcanus

Caspian Tit

Here the details of the Caspian Tit named bird below:

SCI Name:  Poecile hyrcanus
Protonym:  Poecile lugubris hyrcanus Orn.Monatsb. 13 p. 76
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae /
Taxonomy Code:  castit2
Type Locality:  Rustumabad, Ghilan, northwestern Iran.
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Publish Year:  1905
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos  unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris.   ...   4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes.   Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder.   L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen.   ...   **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829  M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.

hyrcana / hyrcanus
L. Hyrcanus  Hyrcanian, Caspian  < Hyrcani  a people of the Caspian Sea (Mare Hyrcanus).