Lophophanes Dichrous Bird

English Name:  Gray-crested Tit
Latin Name:  Lophophanes dichrous
Protonym:  Parus dichrous J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 13(1844) p.943
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Lophophanes
Taxonomy Code:  gyctit1
Type Locality:  Nepal ; restricted to high altitudes of north-central Nepal by Biswas, 1955, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 75, p. 88.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOPHOPHANES
(Paridae; Ϯ Crested Tit L. cristatus) Gr. λοφος lophos  crest; -φανης
-phanēs  showing  < φαινω phainō  to show; "4. Parus cristatus, bicolor.   ...   4. Haubenmeise. Lophophanes *)   E[ntwickelung]. Alle Formen verkleinern sich; die Farben werden einfacher.   Ch[arakter]. Meisen mit Federbüschen.   L[ebensart]. Sie leben Nadelhölzer und die Gesellschaf der Goldhähnchen.   ...   *) λοφος, Haube und φαινω, zeigen." (Kaup 1829); "LOPHOPHANES Kaup, 1829  M — Parus cristatus Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 427).
Var. Lophaphanes, Lophopterus.

dichrous
Gr. dikhrous  two-coloured  < δι- di-  double  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

SUBSPECIES

Gray-crested Tit (kangrae)
Latin Name: Lophophanes dichrous kangrae
kangrae
Kangra District, northern Punjab (= Himachal Pradesh), India.

Gray-crested Tit (dichrous)
Latin Name: Lophophanes dichrous dichrous
dichrous
Gr. dikhrous  two-coloured  < δι- di-  double  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

Gray-crested Tit (dichroides)
Latin Name: Lophophanes dichrous dichroides
dichroides
Specific name Parus dichrous Blyth, 1844; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (subsp. Lophophanes dichrous).

Gray-crested Tit (wellsi)
Latin Name: Lophophanes dichrous wellsi
wellsi
● John Grant Wells (fl. 1902) collector, resident on Grenada, West Indies 1886-1902 (syn. Amazilia tobaci, syn. Coereba flaveola aterrima, Leptotila).
● Thomas Wells (1868-1939) British ornithologist at BMNH 1883-1929 (syn. Campethera tullbergi, syn. Cercococcyx mechowi, syn. Cisticola lateralis antinorii, subsp. Climacteris melanurus, syn. Eremophila alpestris longirostris, syn. Francolinus pintadeanus, subsp. Liocichla ripponi, subsp. Lophophanes dichrous, subsp. Motacilla capensis, subsp. Picus chlorolophus, subsp. Syma megarhyncha, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus nigrimentum).