White-fronted Tit

Here the details of the White-fronted Tit named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sittiparus semilarvatus
Protonym:  Melaniparus semilarvatus AttiSoc.Ital.Sci.Nat.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Milano 8 p.375
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Sittiparus
Taxonomy Code:  whftit2
Type Locality:  Himalayas ; errore. Muscicapa luzoniensis Gmelin, 1789 [= M. tessacourbe Scopoli, 1786], is unidentifiable, fide Delacour, 1946, Auk, 63, p. 433.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

SITTIPARUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Varied Tit S. varius) Portmanteau of genera Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, nuthatch, and Parus Linnaeus, 1758, tit; "{Front blanchâtre. Tête non huppée. . . . .5. Sittiparus Selys (Asie orientale).  ...  Sous-genre V. SITTIPARUS Selys, 1884.  ...  Dans les Iles du Japon et de Formose, il existe un autre type singulier (P. varius Temm. et Schleg.) chez qui le plastron guttural et la tache nuchale sont comme chez les Periparus, mais qui s'en sépare par le front largement blanchâtre, dessin qui se confond avec la grande tache ordinaire des côtés de la tête, caractère particulier à ce petit groupe remarquable encore par le bec cunéiforme renflé en dessous et par le doigt postérieur et son ongle fort longs, ce qui rappelle les Sittelles, d'ou le nom que je propose." (de Selys-Longchamps 1884).
Synon. Penthornis.
● (syn. Schoeniparus Ϯ Yellow-throated Fulvetta S. cinereus). "Genus SITTIPARUS, n. gen.  The genus for which I propose the name of Sittiparus (with S. cinereus as the type) contains two birds which are quite different from Schœniparus on the one hand, and from Proparus and Lioparus on the other.  In 1844 (J.A.S.B. xiii, p. 939) Hodgson proposed the name of Certhiparus for S. castaneiceps. This name had, however, been given by Lafresnaye two years previously to some birds from New Zealand, and Hodgson's name therefore cannot be retained.  Sittiparus is one of the genera of Timeliine birds with a Tit-like bill. It differs from Schœniparus in having the tail very much shorter than the wing, and from Proparus and Lioparus in having no hairs overhanging the nostrils.  ...  181. Sittiparus cinereus. The Dusky-green Tit-Babbler.  ...  The Dusky-green Hill-Tit, Jerd.  ...  182. Sittiparus castaneiceps. The Chestnut-headed Tit-Babbler..  ...  The Chestnut-headed Hill-Tit, Jerd." (Oates 1889).

semilarvata / semilarvatus
L. semi-  half-  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; larvatus  masked  < larva  mask.

SUBSPECIES

White-fronted Tit (snowi)
SCI Name: Sittiparus semilarvatus snowi
snowi
● Capt. Henry James Snow (1848-1915) British seaman and hunter (subsp. Cepphus columba).
● Dr David William Snow (1924-2009) English ornithologist (Myrmotherula, subsp. Sittiparus semilarvatus).

White-fronted Tit (semilarvatus)
SCI Name: Sittiparus semilarvatus semilarvatus
semilarvata / semilarvatus
L. semi-  half-  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; larvatus  masked  < larva  mask.

White-fronted Tit (nehrkorni)
SCI Name: Sittiparus semilarvatus nehrkorni
nehrkorni
Adolph Nehrkorn (1841-1916) German oologist, collector (Dicaeum, subsp. Edolisoma tenuirostre, subsp. Hyliota violacea, Neolesbia, subsp. Sittiparus semilarvatus, ‡Zosterops).