Cholornis Unicolor Bird

Cholornis Unicolor Bird

Cholornis Unicolor Bird

English Name:  Brown Parrotbill
Latin Name:  Cholornis unicolor
Protonym:  H[eteromorpha]. unicolor J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.448
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Cholornis
Taxonomy Code:  bropar1
Type Locality:  northern Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHOLORNIS
(SylviidaeϮ Three-toed Parrotbill C. paradoxus) Gr. χωλος khōlos  defective; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "GENUS CHOLORNIS.  Paradoxornitheo simillimus: mandibula superiore minus sinuosa, magis apice truncata; digitus externus brevissimus; alæ breves; cauda elongata, graduata.   8. CHOLORNIS PARADOXA" (J. Verreaux 1870); "Cholornis J. Verreaux, 1870, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris], 6, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, Cholornis paradoxus J. Verreaux." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 432).
Var. Chlorornis.

unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).