Crested Tit-Warbler
Crested Tit-Warbler
Here the details of the Crested Tit-Warbler named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leptopoecile elegans Zap.Imp.Akad.Nauk 55 p.77
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Aegithalidae / Leptopoecile
Taxonomy Code: crtwar1
Type Locality: upper Huang Ho near Lake Koko Nor (= Ch''ing-hai Hu), northeastern Tsinghai.
Author: Przevalski
Publish Year: 1887
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LEPTOPOECILE
(Aegithalidae; Ϯ White-browed Tit-warbler L. sophiae) Gr. λεπτος leptos delicate, slender; genus Poecile Kaup, 1829, tit; "177. Leptopoecile Sophiae nob." (Severtzov 1873) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Leptopoecile Severtsov, 1873, Izvestiia Imp. Obshchestva Liubitelei Estest. Antrop. Etnogr., Moscow, 8, pt. 2 (1872), pp. 66, 135. Type, by monotypy, Leptopoecile sophiae Severtsov." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 292-293).
Var. Leptopoecila.
Synon. Lophobasileus, Stoliczkana.
elegans
L. elegans, elegantis elegant, fine < elegere probably an early form of eligere to select.
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524 (Celeus).
● ex “Bucco maynanensis” of Brisson 1760, “Barbu des Maynas” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 330, “Beau Tamatia” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Beautiful Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Eubucco versicolor).
● ex “Perdix martineta” of de Azara 1802-1805 (Eudromia).
● ex “Tangara de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 114, fig. 1 (syn. Euphonia chlorotica).
● ex “Beautiful Lory” of Latham 1781, ?and “Pennantian Parrot” of Latham 1787 (Platycercus).
● ex “Kink de la Chine” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 617 (syn. Sturnia sinensis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)