Poecile Hypermelaenus Bird

English Name:  Black-bibbed Tit
Latin Name:  Poecile hypermelaenus
Protonym:  Poecile hypermelaena Av.Exped.Potanini p.112
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Poecile
Taxonomy Code:  bkbtit1
Type Locality:  Lan-shya-kou (near Kansu border), Shensi.
Author:  Berezowski & Bianchi
Publish Year:  1891
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos  unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris.   ...   4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes.   Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder.   L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen.   ...   **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829  M — Parus palustris 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, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.

hypermelaena / hypermelaenus / hypermelas
Gr. ὑπερ huper  exceedingly; μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black (cf. ὑπομελαινω hupomelainō  to be blackish).