Hooded Pitohui
Hooded Pitohui
Here the details of the Hooded Pitohui named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Rectes dichrous Compt.Rend. 31 p.563
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Oriolidae / Pitohui
Taxonomy Code: hoopit1
Type Locality: Lobo, Triton Bay.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PITOHUI
(Oriolidae; Ϯ Northern Variable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus) Papuan name Pitohui rubbish bird (i.e. inedible), for the pitohuis. The skin and feathers of the Variable Pitohui contain powerful batrachotoxins, probably developed from the beetles that form part of its diet (see Ifrita); "VII.e Sous-genre. PITOHUI; Pitohui. Bec long, triangulaire, à arête vive, crochue; à narines arrondies; à bords élargis, un peu dilatés; tarses moyens. Queue médiocre, arrondie. 1.º Lanius kirrhocephalus, Less., Zool. de la Coq., pl. 11. De la Nouvelle-Guinée. 2.º Lanius niger , Horsf.; Lanius melas, Garn.; Less., Man., t. I.er, p. 128. 3.º Lanius. Pie-Grièche noire et blanche. Du Cap. (Mus. de Paris.)" (Lesson 1830); "Pitohui Lesson, 1830, Traité Orn., p. 375. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1877, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 3, p. 283), Lanius kirhocephalus Lesson and Garnot." (Mayr in Peters 1967, XII, 45).
Var. Pitoius.
Synon. Rectes.
dichrous
Gr. dikhrous two-coloured < δι- di- double < δις dis twice < δυο duo two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas colour, appearance < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos complexion.
SUBSPECIES
Hooded Pitohui (dichrous)
SCI Name: Pitohui dichrous dichrous
dichrous
Gr. dikhrous two-coloured < δι- di- double < δις dis twice < δυο duo two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas colour, appearance < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos complexion.
Hooded Pitohui (monticola)
SCI Name: Pitohui dichrous monticola
MONTICOLA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush M. saxatilis) L. monticola mountain-dweller, mountaineer < mons, montis mountain; -cola inhabitant < colere to dwell; "22. Familie. Drosseln, Turdus. 43. Gattung. Monticola.2 85. saxatilis 86. cyanus. ... 2 Unterscheidendes Kennzeichen der Gattung: das rostrothe oder schieferblaue Gefieder." (Boie 1822); "Monticola Boie, 1822, Isis, col. 552. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1847, Gen. Birds, 1, p. 220), Turdus saxatilis Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 135).
Synon. Colonocincla, Cyanocincla, Migratorius, Notiocichla, Notiocincla, Orocetes, Oroscirtetes, Petrocincla, Petrocossyphus, Petrophila, Petrornis, Pseudocossyphus.
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)