Chinese Egret

Here the details of the Chinese Egret named bird below:

SCI Name:  Egretta eulophotes
Protonym:  Herodias eulophotes Ibis p.64
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Egretta
Taxonomy Code:  chiegr
Type Locality:  Amoy, China.
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

EGRETTA
(Ardeidae; † Little Egret E. garzetta) French Aigrette  egret  < dim. Provençal Aigron  heron; "EGRETTA GARZETTA?  The Egret?" (T. Forster 1817); "Egretta T. Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Bds., 1817, p. 59.  Type, by monotypy, Ardea garzetta Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 110).   
Var. Egetta.   
Synon. Demigretta, Dichromanassa, Erodius, Florida, Garzetta, Glaucerodius, Hemiegretta, Hemigarzetta, Herodias, Hydranassa, Lepterodas, Leucophoyx, Melanophoyx, Notophoyx.

egretta
French Aigrette  egret  < dim. Provençal Aigron  heron.
● ex “Guiratinga” of Ray 1713, “Grande Aigrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925, “Grande Aigrette” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Great Egret” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (subsp. Ardea alba).

eulophota / eulophotes
Gr. ευλοφος eulophos well-plumed, well-crested < ευ eu good; λοφος lophos crest; -οτης -otēs featuring, quality.