Vinous-throated Parrotbill

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

SCI Name:  Sinosuthora webbiana
Protonym:  Suthora Webbiana BirdsAsia[Gould] 3 pt4 pl.72
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Sinosuthora
Taxonomy Code:  vitpar1
Type Locality:  Shanghai, Kiangsu.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SINOSUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Spectacled Parrotbill S. conspicillata) Mod. English Sino-  Chinese-  < Late L. Sinae  Chinese  < Gr. Σιναι Sinai  Chinese; genus Suthora Hodgson, 1837, parrotbill; "Sinosuthora new genus  Diagnosis: small parrotbills 11-15cm in length. Relatively plain in coloration, with brown to rufous-chestnut-fringed wings; all lack pronounced lateral crown-stripes.  Type: Suthora conspicillata A. David, 1871.  Gender: feminine" (Penhallurick & Robson 2009). The Spectacled Parrotbill is confined to China, where all the other members of the genus are also found, with a few outlying populations in bordering countries.
Synon. Sinoparadoxornis.

webbiana / webbianus
“A single specimen of this new bird graces the national collection at the British Museum; to which it was presented by Mr. [J.] Webb, a gentleman who has been instrumental in introducing to our notice considerable collections of birds and quadrupeds from the neighbourhood of Shanghai in China ...  as a compliment to the donor of this and many other interesting birds to the British Museum” (Gould 1852).  Sauer 1995, lists “E. Webb. China” as a subscriber to Gould’s works.  Philip Barker Webb (1793-1854) English botanist, referred to in my previous dictionaries (per Wynne 1969), had no connection with China (Sinosuthora).

SUBSPECIES

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (suffusa)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana suffusa
suffusa
L. suffusus  blushing, bashful, modest  < suffundere  to suffuse.

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (mantschurica)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana mantschurica
mantschurica / mantschuricus
Manchuria, China.

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (fulvicauda)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana fulvicauda
fulvicauda
L. fulvus  tawny; cauda  tail.

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (webbiana)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana webbiana
webbiana / webbianus
“A single specimen of this new bird graces the national collection at the British Museum; to which it was presented by Mr. [J.] Webb, a gentleman who has been instrumental in introducing to our notice considerable collections of birds and quadrupeds from the neighbourhood of Shanghai in China ...  as a compliment to the donor of this and many other interesting birds to the British Museum” (Gould 1852).  Sauer 1995, lists “E. Webb. China” as a subscriber to Gould’s works.  Philip Barker Webb (1793-1854) English botanist, referred to in my previous dictionaries (per Wynne 1969), had no connection with China (Sinosuthora).

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (elisabethae)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana elisabethae
elisabethae
● Elizaveta Vladimirovna Pushkariova-Kozlova (1892-1972) Russian ornithologist, wife of explorer Gen. Pyotr K. Kozlov (syn. Emberiza hortulana, syn. Strix nebulosa lapponica).
● Catharina Elisabeth Boldewina Lecky Baroness van Dedem (1842-1912) sister of Dutch naturalist Frederik Karel Baron van Dedem, lady-in-waiting to Queen Sophia of the Netherlands, and wife of Irish essayist William Edward Hartpole Lecky (subsp. Myzomela wakoloensis).
● Elizabeth La Touche (1912-1988) daughter of Irish ornithologist John D. D. La Touche (subsp. Serilophus lunatus, subsp. Sinosuthora webbiana).
● see elizabethae

Vinous-throated Parrotbill (bulomacha)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora webbiana bulomacha
bulomacha / bulomachus
Gr. βουλομαχος boulomakhos  pugnacious, belligerent  < βουλομαι boulomai  to want; μαχη makhē  battle.
● "But if the finger were thrust through the bars he would fly at it with great fury, pecking and biting very hard, and charging again and again at it, each time with redoubled onslaught.  He was always ready for a fight, and seemed by his manner to challenge it.  ...   He was altogether the most pugnacious little bird I have ever seen  ...  I should like to introduce the species as  SUTHORA BULOMACHUS*, sp. nov.  ...  * βουλομαχος, qui cupit pugnare." (Swinhoe 1866) (subsp. Sinosuthora webbiana).