Rufous-headed Tailorbird
Rufous-headed Tailorbird
Here the details of the Rufous-headed Tailorbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Phyllergates heterolaemus Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 18 p.86
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Phyllergates
Taxonomy Code: ruhtai2
Type Locality: Mt. Apo, Mindanao, Philippine Islands; altitude 6,700 feet.
Author: Mearns
Publish Year: 1905
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PHYLLERGATES
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Mountain Tailorbird P. cucullatus) Gr. φυλλον phullon leaf; εργατης ergatēs worker < εργαζομαι ergazomai to work; "[Key] d". Bill very long and slender, rather flat, the culmen exceeding the length of the hind toe and claw ... Outermost tail-feather much longer, and falling short of the remainder by less than the length of the culmen; bill flatter and more equilateral for the whole of its length. . . .7. PHYLLERGATES" (Sharpe 1883); "Tailor-Bird. This bird is so called from the fact that it is in the habit of drawing together "one leaf or more, generally two leaves, on each side of the nest, and stitches them together with cotton, either woven by itself, or cotton thread picked up; and after putting the thread through the leaf, it makes a knot at the end to fix it" (Jerdon [1862-1864])" (Yule & Burnell 1903).
Var. Phyllobates ("This is obviously an error for Phyllergates; in a footnote to his genus Phyllobates. Oates acknowledged permission to use Sharpe's nomenclature from Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7. which appeared a few months later. Subsequently, Oates, 1889, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, 1, p. 439, used Phyllergates credited to Sharpe, 1883, as do later writers on Indian birds" (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 174)).
heterolaemus
Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; λαιμος laimos throat.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)