Spectacled Barwing

Here the details of the Spectacled Barwing named bird below:

SCI Name:  Actinodura ramsayi
Protonym:  Actinura Ramsayi Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(4), 15 p.402
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Actinodura
Taxonomy Code:  spebar1
Type Locality:  Karenni State, Upper Burma ; type from Kyebogyi [lat. 19° 21'' N., long. 97° 14'' E.], fide Ramsay, 1881, Orn. Works Arthur, Ninth Marquis Tweeddale, p. 415, footnote.
Author:  Walden
Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ACTINODURA
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Rusty-fronted Barwing A. egertoni) Gr. ακτινωδης aktinōdēs  like rays  < ακτις aktis, ακτινος aktinos  ray, beam; ουρα oura  tail (cf. "However, an alternative proposition is provided by Jobling (1991) who claims that Actinodura is derived from the Greek nouns aktis (feminine) or aktinos (masculine) meaning brightness or splendour and odouros (masculine) meaning a watcher or guardian" (Eames et al. 1999)); "ACTINODURA.  Rostrum subcompressum, subarcuatum, ad apicem subemarginatum.  Nares basales, lineares, operculo magno tectæ.  Alæ molles, breviusculæ, concavæ: remige 1ma brevissima 4ta 5taque longioribus.  Cauda mollis, elongata, gradata.  Tarsi elongati.  Pedes majusculi: halluce ungueque postico longiusculis.  Ptilosis mollis, laxa.   The wings and tail in the birds of this group are transversely barred. The typical species are crested.    ACTINODURA EGERTONI.  ...   Hab. In Nepalia.  The specimen described was presented to the Society by Sir P. Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P." (Gould 1836); "Actinodura Gould, 1836, Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 17.  Type, by original designation, Actinodura Egertoni Gould." (Ripley, 1961, Synopsis Birds India Pakistan, p. 402).
Var. Actinura.   
Synon. Alcopus, Hemipteron, Ixops, Leiocincla.

ramsayi
● Col. Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921) British Army in India and Burma 1872-1882, President of BOU 1913-1918 (Actinodura, syn. Cyornis banyumas lemprieri, Picoides, subsp. Psilopogon franklinii, subsp. Trochalopteron melanostigma).
● Dr Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916) Australian zoologist, Curator of Australian Mus., Sydney 1874-1894 (syn. Burhinus grallarius, subsp. Ceyx pusillus, syn. Daphoeonositta chrysoptera, subsp. Lonchura castaneothorax (ex Donacola nigriceps Ramsay, 1877), subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, syn. Petroica goodenovii, syn. Ramsayornis modestus (ex Gliciphila subfasciata Ramsay, 1868), syn. Todiramphus sanctus, syn. Zosterops lateralis vegetus, syn. Zosterops rendovae).

SUBSPECIES

Spectacled Barwing (Eastern)
SCI Name: Actinodura ramsayi radcliffei/yunnanensis
ACTINODURA
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Rusty-fronted Barwing A. egertoni) Gr. ακτινωδης aktinōdēs  like rays  < ακτις aktis, ακτινος aktinos  ray, beam; ουρα oura  tail (cf. "However, an alternative proposition is provided by Jobling (1991) who claims that Actinodura is derived from the Greek nouns aktis (feminine) or aktinos (masculine) meaning brightness or splendour and odouros (masculine) meaning a watcher or guardian" (Eames et al. 1999)); "ACTINODURA.  Rostrum subcompressum, subarcuatum, ad apicem subemarginatum.  Nares basales, lineares, operculo magno tectæ.  Alæ molles, breviusculæ, concavæ: remige 1ma brevissima 4ta 5taque longioribus.  Cauda mollis, elongata, gradata.  Tarsi elongati.  Pedes majusculi: halluce ungueque postico longiusculis.  Ptilosis mollis, laxa.   The wings and tail in the birds of this group are transversely barred. The typical species are crested.    ACTINODURA EGERTONI.  ...   Hab. In Nepalia.  The specimen described was presented to the Society by Sir P. Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P." (Gould 1836); "Actinodura Gould, 1836, Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 17.  Type, by original designation, Actinodura Egertoni Gould." (Ripley, 1961, Synopsis Birds India Pakistan, p. 402).
Var. Actinura.   
Synon. Alcopus, Hemipteron, Ixops, Leiocincla.

Spectacled Barwing (Western)
SCI Name: Actinodura ramsayi ramsayi
ramsayi
● Col. Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921) British Army in India and Burma 1872-1882, President of BOU 1913-1918 (Actinodura, syn. Cyornis banyumas lemprieri, Picoides, subsp. Psilopogon franklinii, subsp. Trochalopteron melanostigma).
● Dr Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916) Australian zoologist, Curator of Australian Mus., Sydney 1874-1894 (syn. Burhinus grallarius, subsp. Ceyx pusillus, syn. Daphoeonositta chrysoptera, subsp. Lonchura castaneothorax (ex Donacola nigriceps Ramsay, 1877), subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, syn. Petroica goodenovii, syn. Ramsayornis modestus (ex Gliciphila subfasciata Ramsay, 1868), syn. Todiramphus sanctus, syn. Zosterops lateralis vegetus, syn. Zosterops rendovae).