Black-throated Parrotbill

Black-throated Parrotbill / Suthora nipalensis

Black-throated Parrotbill

Here the details of the Black-throated Parrotbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Suthora nipalensis
Protonym:  [Parus] Suthora Nipalensis Ind.Rev. 2 p.32
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bltpar1
Type Locality:  central and northern regions of Nepal; restricted to Kathmandu Valley, by Ripley, 1961, Synops. Birds, India Pakistan, p. 370.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.

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

SUBSPECIES

Black-throated Parrotbill (Black-throated)
SCI Name: Suthora nipalensis nipalensis/crocotius
SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.

Black-throated Parrotbill (Orange-eared)
SCI Name: Suthora nipalensis humii
humii
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) English civil servant in India 1850-1894, ornithologist, collector, founder of journal ‘Stray Feathers’ (subsp. Carpodacus puniceus, Chrysophlegma, subsp. Coccothraustes coccothraustes, subsp. Hypsipetes ganeesa, syn. Periparus ater aemodius, syn. Psilopogon mystacophanos, Pycnonotus leucogenys x P. leucotis hybrid, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris (ex Sturnus nitens Hume, 1871), subsp. Suthora nipalensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Black-throated Parrotbill (Gray-breasted)
SCI Name: Suthora nipalensis poliotis/feae
SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.

Black-throated Parrotbill (Buff-breasted)
SCI Name: Suthora nipalensis ripponi/patriciae
SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.

Black-throated Parrotbill (Black-eared)
SCI Name: Suthora nipalensis beaulieu/kamoli
SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.