Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler
Here the details of the Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Eupetes castanonotus Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 7(1875) p.966
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cinclosomatidae / Ptilorrhoa
Taxonomy Code: cbjbab1
Type Locality: Mount Morait [lat. 0° 45'' S., long. 131° 30'' E.], New Guinea.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1876
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PTILORRHOA
(Cinclosomatidae; Ϯ Blue Jewel-babbler P. caerulescens) Gr. πτιλον ptilon feather; ορρος orrhos rump; "For many years an assemblage of Papuan Timeliidae has been united generically with Eupetes (type Eupetes macrocercus Temminck) of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. A preliminary survey of the Timeliidae in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy shows that this grouping is not correct, but that the Papuan birds are generically separable from Eupetes and that there is no name available. I therefore propose Ptilorrhoa genus novum TYPE, Eupetes caerulescens Temminck. DIAGNOSIS.—Related to Eupetes but bill relatively much shorter, more decurved terminally, little wider than high; position of nostril more basal, the distance from its anterior edge to tip of culmen equal to or less than the distance from its anterior edge to the gape; tail slightly graduated, rectrices broad and obtuse; tarsus less than twice as long as middle toe without claw; entire feathering of head normal (not velvety); under tail-coverts normal; no bare skin about eye; no naked patches on sides of neck. ... The most noticeable point of similarity in the two genera is the extraordinary thick mat of feathers covering the lower back and rump. The forms of Ptilorrhoa are:— Ptilorrhoa caerulescens ... Ptilorrhoa castanotus ... Ptilorrhoa leucostictus" (J. L. Peters 1940).
Synon. Mollitor.
castanonota / castanonotum / castanonotus
Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (castanonota)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota castanonota
castanonota / castanonotum / castanonotus
Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (saturata)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota saturata
saturata
L. saturatus richly coloured, darker coloured < satur, satura rich, copious < satis enough.
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (uropygialis)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota uropygialis
uropygialis / uropygiata / uropygiatus
Med. L. uropygium rump < Gr. ουροπυγιον ouropugion bird’s rump.
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (buergersi)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota buergersi
buergersi
Prof. Dr Theodor Josef Bürgers (1881-1954) German hygienist, bacteriologist, surgeon-explorer in New Guinea 1912-1913 (Erythrotriorchis, subsp. Geoffroyus simplex, subsp. Mearnsia novaeguineae, subsp. Melanorectes nigrescens, syn. Psittacella brehmii intermixta, subsp. Pteridophora alberti, subsp. Ptilorrhoa castanonota, subsp. Sericornis papuensis).
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (par)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota par
par
L. par, paris equal, like.
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (pulchra)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota pulchra
pulchra
L. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Rufous-headed Rail” of Latham, 1824 (Sarothrura).
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (gilliardi)
SCI Name: Ptilorrhoa castanonota gilliardi
gilliardi
Dr Ernest Thomas Gilliard (1912-1965) US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Aerodramus leucophaeus, subsp. Diglossa major, syn. Melidectes fuscus, syn. Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi, subsp. Pardaliparus elegans, subsp. Pauxi pauxi, subsp. Ptilorrhoa castanonota).
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)