Bar-bellied Pitta

Bar-bellied Pitta / Hydrornis elliotii

Bar-bellied Pitta

Here the details of the Bar-bellied Pitta named bird below:

SCI Name:  Hydrornis elliotii
Protonym:  Pitta elliotii Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 10 p.101 pl.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  babpit1
Type Locality:  Cochinchina.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  

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.

elliotii
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (Dendropicos, Hydrornis, Trochalopteron (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.)).
● Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887) Scottish civil servant in India, archaeologist, collector (syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus).