Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker

Here the details of the Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker named bird below:

SCI Name:  Prionochilus thoracicus
Protonym:  Pardalotus thoracicus Pl.Col. livr.101 pl.600 fig.1,2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicaeidae / Prionochilus
Taxonomy Code:  scbflo2
Type Locality:  Borneo.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PRIONOCHILUS
(Dicaeidae; Ϯ Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker P. percussus) Gr. πριων priōn, πριονος prionos  saw; χειλος kheilos  lip; “Fam. PIPRIDÆ?  Subfam. PARDALOTINÆ?  Genus PRIONOCHILUS*, n.g.  <Pardalotus, Temm.  Diff. Char.—Margins of the beak minutely serrated.   Rostrum longiusculum, subcompressum, mandibulus subæqualibus; culmine subcarinato, juxta basin recto, deinde usque ad apicem gradatim decurvato; commissura modice decurvata; gonyde sursum curvata.  Maxilla haud emarginata, sed tomia mandibulae utriusque per medietatem externam minutissime serrata. Nares oblongæ, membrana supra tectæ.  Alæ mediocres, remige 1^a spuria, 3^a, 4^a, et 5^a subæqualibus.  Cauda brevis rectricibus æqualibus.  Pedes subbreves, gressorii, acrotarsiis subscutellatis, paratarsiis integris.  Digitus externus interiore longior, ad medium per longitudinis dimidium coadunatus.  Habitant in Malasia.   Species: 1. P. percussus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 394. f. 2.   2. P. thoracicus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 600. f. 1, 2.   3. P. maculatus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 600. f. 3.   Obs. The nearest affinity of this group is Calyptomena, Raff., to which it approaches in the structure of the beak and feet much more nearly than to Pardalotus. The serrations of the tomia appear not to have been hitherto noticed.   *Πριων, a saw; χειλος, a lip.” (Strickland 1841); "Prionochilus Strickland, 1841, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 9, p. 29. Type, by subsequent designation, Pardalotus percussus Temminck and Laugier (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 46). Not preoccupied by Prionocheilus Chevrolat, 1837, Coleoptera." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 171-172).
Var. Prionichilus.
Synon. Acmonorhynchus, Anaimos, Charitociris.
● (syn. Mergus Ϯ Brazilian Merganser M. octosetaceus) "Prionochilus brasiliensis, Bertoni (gen. nov.)  ...  Los bordes están armados, en toda la lonjitud, menos la uña, por una hilera de dientes fuertes, espesos, agudos, oblícuos hacia atrás, muy visibles exteriormente" (Bertoni 1901); "Prionochilus Bertoni, An. Cient. Paraguayos (1), no. 1, 1901, p. 8. Type, by monotypy, Prionochilus braziliensis [sic] Bertoni = Mergus octosetaceus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, I, 186).

thoracica / thoracicus
Med. L. thoracicus  pectoral, of the chest  < Gr. θωρακικος thōrakikos  suffering in the chest  < θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breastplate.
● ex “Plastron Noir” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 123 (Apalis).
● ex “Alconcillo aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 39 (syn. Falco femoralis).