Blue-naped Pitta

Here the details of the Blue-naped Pitta named bird below:

SCI Name:  Hydrornis nipalensis
Protonym:  Paludicola Nipalensis J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 6 p.103
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code:  blnpit1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-   < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).   
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.

nipalense / nipalensis
Nepal or, formerly, Nipal or Nepaul. According to legend Nepal means "the place protected by the Hindu sage Ne."

SUBSPECIES

Blue-naped Pitta (nipalensis)
SCI Name: Hydrornis nipalensis nipalensis
nipalense / nipalensis
Nepal or, formerly, Nipal or Nepaul. According to legend Nepal means "the place protected by the Hindu sage Ne."

Blue-naped Pitta (hendeei)
SCI Name: Hydrornis nipalensis hendeei
hendeei
Russell W. Hendee (1899-1929) US zoologist, collector in Alaska, Peru and Indochina (subsp. Hydrornis nipalensis, syn. Trochalopteron melanostigma).