Laticilla Cinerascens Bird

English Name:  Swamp Grass Babbler
Latin Name:  Laticilla cinerascens
Protonym:  Eurycercus cinerascens Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist. ser. 4, vol. XIV, N° 80 p. 156-157
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Laticilla
Taxonomy Code:  swapri1
Type Locality:  Dobri (= Dhubri), lower Bengal.
Author:  Walden
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

LATICILLA
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Rufous-vented Grass-babbler L. burnesii) L. latus  wide, broad (see Eurycercus); Mod. L. cilla  tail (see Motacilla); "Laticilla, nobis (olim Eurycercus, J.A.S. XIII, 374, which name cannot be retained, as it was previously applied to a genus of Entomostraca by Dr. W. Baird, in the An. and Mag. Nat. Hist., February, 1843, p. 88)" (Blyth 1845). The birds in this genus were formerly known as prinias.
Synon. Eurycercus.

cinerascens
Late L. cinerescens, cinerescentis  ashen  < cinerescere  to turn to ashes  < L. cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Mésange Grisette” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 138 (Melaniparus).