Ashy Prinia

SCI Name:  Prinia socialis
Protonym:  Prinia socialis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.18 p.89
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Prinia
Taxonomy Code:  ashpri1
Type Locality:  Dukhun = Deccan, India.
Author:  Sykes
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRINIA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-winged Prinia P. familiaris) Javanese name Prinya for the Bar-winged Prinia; "Gen. 33. PRINIA.  Rostrum mediocre, rectum, basi latiusculum, ultra nares sensim attenuatum, apice validiusculo.  Maxilla basi recta, apice levissime arcuata: culmine inter nares carinato, deinde rotundato, extremitate obsolete emarginato.  Mandibula recta, ultra medium levissime sursum inclinata.  Nares basales, magnæ, in fovea oblonga antice angustiore positæ, membrana tectæ, parte inferiore rima longitudinale apertæ.  Alæ rotundatæ. Remiges: 1 abrupte, 2 et 3 gradatim breviores, reliquæ subæquales, 3—7 externe tenuiter emarginatæ.  Cauda elongata cuneata.  Pedes elongati.  Digitus medius longiusculus cum exteriore basi coalitus.  Hallux validiusculus medio antico major validior.   This genus is allied to the former [Pomatorhinus], but it differs in the comparative straightness of the bill and its more gradual tapering to the point; it is also destitute of the horny covering of the nares. It holds an immediate place between Pomatorhinus and Nectarinia. In the situation of the nares it agrees with the latter, but the aperture is much larger and of a different form. The elevation of the tarsi constitutes a peculiar character.    Spec. 1. Prinia familiaris.   ...   Prinya Javanis." (Horsfield 1821); "Prinia Horsfield, 1821, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, p. 165. Type, by monotypy, Prinia familiaris Horsfield." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 128).   
Var. Primia, Prinea.   
Synon. Blanfordius, Burnesia, Daseocharis, Decurus, Drymoica, Drymoipus, Dybowskia, Franklinia, Heliolais, Herpystera, Suya, Urorhipis.

prinia
"ORTOTOME PRINIE.   ORTHOTOMUS PRINIA.  TEMM.   C'EST ici l'espèce que M. Horsfield indique, dans son catalogue des oiseaux de Java, sous le nom de Prinia familiaris, et dont il publie une figure, peu soignée pour ce qui concerne la forme du bec, dans ces Illustrations de Java; c'est aussi la Prinya des Malais." (Temminck 1836) (subsp. Prinia familiaris).

socialis
L. socialis  sociable, of allies  < socius  allied, sharing  < sequi  to follow.
● ex “Pluvianelle sociable” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1845 (Pluvianellus).
● "Spizella socialis (Wils.)  ...  Bartram calls it "Passer domesticus, the little House Sparrow or Chipping-bird." The bird was so common that Wilson, though its first biographer and namer, makes no mention of it as a novelty" (Trotter 1907) (syn. Spizella passerina).

SUBSPECIES

Ashy Prinia (stewarti)
SCI Name: Prinia socialis stewarti
stewarti
● Ronald McDonald Stewart (1881-1958) English ornithologist, naturalist, game warden and wildfowl officer in British Columbia, Canada 1919-1958 (subsp. Certhia americana).
● Surgeon-Gen. Ludovick Charles Stewart (1819-1888) British Army in India, naturalist (Emberiza, subsp. Prinia socialis).
● J. S. Stewart (fl. 1913) in Travancore, India 1907-1913 (subsp. Galloperdix spadicea, syn. Surniculus dicruroides).
● Robert E. Stewart (1913-1993) US biologist, ornithologist (syn. Otus bakkamoena gangeticus).
● Stewart I., New Zealand (syn. Phalacrocorax chalconotus).
● Stewart Shipton (1869-1939) British accountant, sugar-mill manager in Argentina 1891-1939, naturalist (syn. Sicalis olivascens).

Ashy Prinia (inglisi)
SCI Name: Prinia socialis inglisi
inglisi
● James Inglis (1845-1908) Scottish tea merchant, indigo planter, sportsman in Cachar, India 1866-1877 (syn. Falco naumanni, syn. Lonchura punctulata subundulata, syn. Megapomatorhinus hypoleucos).
● Charles McFarlane Inglis (1870-1954) Scottish planter in India, naturalist, Curator of Darjeeling Mus. 1926-1948 (subsp. Perdicula manipurensis, subsp. Prinia socialis).

Ashy Prinia (socialis)
SCI Name: Prinia socialis socialis
socialis
L. socialis  sociable, of allies  < socius  allied, sharing  < sequi  to follow.
● ex “Pluvianelle sociable” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1845 (Pluvianellus).
● "Spizella socialis (Wils.)  ...  Bartram calls it "Passer domesticus, the little House Sparrow or Chipping-bird." The bird was so common that Wilson, though its first biographer and namer, makes no mention of it as a novelty" (Trotter 1907) (syn. Spizella passerina).

Ashy Prinia (brevicauda)
SCI Name: Prinia socialis brevicauda
brevicauda
L. brevis short; cauda tail.
● ex “Beffroi de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 706, fig. 1 (syn. Myrmothera campanisona).
● ex “Merle des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 89 (syn. Pitta sordida).