Tawny-bellied Babbler

Tawny-bellied Babbler / Dumetia hyperythra

Tawny-bellied Babbler

Here the details of the Tawny-bellied Babbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dumetia hyperythra
Protonym:  Timalia hyperythra Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.10 p.118
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tabbab1
Type Locality:  Ganges between Calcutta and Benares.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

DUMETIA
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Tawny-bellied Babbler D. hyperythra) L. dumetum, dumeti  thicket  < dumus, dumi  thorn-bush (cf. Hindi name Shah dumri for this babbler); "Genus DUMETIA, Blyth.   787.  D. HYPERYTHRA.  SYN. Timalia hyperythra, Franklin.  HAB. Central India.   A.B. Specimens procured in the Mednapur jungles (1847).    788. D. ALBOGULARIS.  SYN. Malacocercus (?) albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. XVI, 453.  Timalia hyperythra apud Jerdon, CatalShah Dumri, H.? (Jerdon).  HAB. S. India; Ceylon." (Blyth 1849); "Dumetia Blyth, 1849, Cat. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc., p. 140. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 45), Timalia hyperythra Franklin." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 317).

hyperythra / hyperythrus
● Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; ερυθρος eruthros  red.
● Gr. ὑπερυθρος huperuthros  reddish  < ὑπο hupo  somewhat; ερυθρος eruthros  red.

SUBSPECIES

Tawny-bellied Babbler (hyperythra)
SCI Name: Dumetia hyperythra hyperythra
hyperythra / hyperythrus
● Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; ερυθρος eruthros  red.
● Gr. ὑπερυθρος huperuthros  reddish  < ὑπο hupo  somewhat; ερυθρος eruthros  red.

Tawny-bellied Babbler (albogularis)
SCI Name: Dumetia hyperythra albogularis
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

Tawny-bellied Babbler (phillipsi)
SCI Name: Dumetia hyperythra phillipsi
phillipsi / phillipsii
● Dr Allan Robert Phillips (1914-1996) US ornithologist, taxonomist, collector (subsp. Aimophila ruficeps, subsp. Baeolophus wollweberi, subsp. Cardinalis cardinalis, subsp. Catharus ustulatus, subsp. Certhia americana, subsp. Cochlearius cochlearius, subsp. Cyanocitta stelleri, syn. Icterus spurius, subsp. Pachysylvia decurtata, subsp. Setophaga petechiaTangara).
● Maj. William Watt Addison Phillips (1892-1981) British tea-planter, naturalist in Ceylon (subsp. Alcedo meninting, syn. Ardeola grayii (Martin Schneider in litt.), subsp. Dumetia hyperythra, subsp. Treron phoenicopterus).
● Dr John Charles Phillips (1876-1938) US conservationist, ornithologist, philanthropist, world traveller (syn. Anthus correndera grayi, subsp. Turdus migratorius).
● Eponym; "Anthreptes collaris phillipsi new race.  ...   Type.—In the British Museum.  Female: Lofu River, Northern Rhodesia, collected by S. A. Neave, 17 August, 1908." (C. M. N. White 1950, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 70, 41); doubtless after either (1) Edwin Percy Phillips (1884-1967) South African botanist, taxonomist, or (2) Charles Malcolm Phillips (1918-1990) British surgeon, ophthalmologist in Northern Rhodesia (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Hedydipna collaris garguensis).
● Dr Benjamin Phillips (1805-1861) British physician, naturalist, bibliophile, friend of Audubon (syn. Leuconotopicus villosus).
● Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips (1857-1944) English businessman, explorer, big-game hunter in East Africa 1885-1895 (Oenanthe).