White-cheeked Nuthatch

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

SCI Name:  Sitta leucopsis
Protonym:  Sitta leucopsis BirdsAsia[Gould] 2 pt1 pl.46,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  whcnut1
Type Locality:  interior northwestern Himalayas.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch  < Gr. σιττη sittē  bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA.  Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta,  Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.

leucopsis
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; οψις opsis  face.
● ex “Canard du Maragnon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 808 (syn. Dendrocygna viduata).