Hydrornis Phayrei Bird

Hydrornis Phayrei Bird

Hydrornis Phayrei Bird

English Name:  Eared Pitta
Latin Name:  Hydrornis phayrei
Protonym:  Anthocincla Phayrei J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 31 p.343
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code:  earpit1
Type Locality:  Tounghoo, Burma.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

phayrei
Lt.-Gen. Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (1812-1885) British Army, Commissioner of Arakan 1849-1852, Commissioner of Pegu 1852-1862, Commissioner of British Burma 1862-1867 (subsp. Alcippe poioicephala, subsp. Francolinus pintadeanus, Hydrornis, syn. Leptocoma brasiliana, Pomatorhinus, Treron).