White-cheeked Laughingthrush

Here the details of the White-cheeked Laughingthrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ianthocincla vassali
Protonym:  Dryonastes vassali Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.13
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Ianthocincla
Taxonomy Code:  whclau1
Type Locality:  Bali Region [= Nhatrang Province] , southern Annam.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1906
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ianthocincla
(syn. Garrulax Ϯ Spotted Laughingthrush G. ocellatus) Gr. ιονθος ionthos  young hair, down; Mod. L. cinclus  thrush  < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos  unidentified small waterside bird; "IANTHOCINCLA  ...  Typus genericus. Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vig.  Montium Himalayæ Incolæ.   The chief distinguishing characteristics of the genus Ianthocincla are the comparative length of the tarsus; the length of the hinder toe, and the great length of the claw by which it is terminated; the roundness, concavity, softness, and yielding character of the wings and tail; and the peculiar fullness, lightness, and downiness of the whole of the plumage, and particularly of that of the back and rump. The downy nature of the covering is alluded to in the generic name." (Gould 1835).   Var. Janthocincla, Xanthocincla, Yantocincla, Zanthocincla.

vassali
Col. Dr Joseph Marguerite Jean Vassal (1867-1957) French surgeon, researcher at Pasteur Institute in Indochina 1904-1914, Director of Health French Equatorial Africa 1922-1924 (Garrulax).