Hydrornis Gurneyi Bird

Gurney\'s Pitta / Hydrornis gurneyi

Hydrornis Gurneyi Bird

English Name:  Gurney's Pitta
Latin Name:  Hydrornis gurneyi
Protonym:  Pitta Gurneyi Str.Feath. 3 p.296 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code:  gurpit1
Type Locality:  southern Tenasserim.
Author:  Hume
Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-   < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).   
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.

gurneyi
John Henry Gurney, Sr. (1819-1890) English banker, MP, ornithologist specialising in raptors, founder member of BOU (syn. Accipiter brevipes, syn. Anaplectes rubricepsAquila, subsp. Aviceda subcristata, syn. Falco cherrug milvipesGeokichla, Hydrornis, Mimizuku, syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus ruficollis, syn. Podiceps nigricollisPromerops).