Beautiful Nuthatch

Here the details of the Beautiful Nuthatch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sitta formosa
Protonym:  Sitta formosa J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.938
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  beanut1
Type Locality:  Blyth).
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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.

formosa
L. formosus  beautiful  < forma  beauty.
● ex “Lovely Finch” of Latham 1787 (Amandava).
● ex “Lindo bello” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 96 (syn. Tangara chloroptera).