Bar-tailed Treecreeper

SCI Name:  Certhia himalayana
Protonym:  Certhia Himalayana Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.14 p.174
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Certhiidae / Certhia
Taxonomy Code:  battre1
Type Locality:  Himalayas; restricted to Garhwal or Kumaon by Meinertzhagen, 1922, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 42, p. 140.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CERTHIA
(Certhiidae; Ϯ Eurasian Treecreeper C. familiaris) Gr. κερθιος kerthios small, tree-dwelling. insect-eating bird mentioned by Aristotle, perhaps the treecreeper Certhia but never properly identified. "59. CERTHIA.  Rostrum arcuatum, tenue, subtrigonum.  Lingua acuta." (Linnaeus 1758); "Genus CERTHIA.  Type by Linnean tautonymy and by subsequent designation of Gray (List Gen. Bds. 1st ed. 1840, p. 18): C. familiaris." (BOU 1915); "Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 118. Type, by tautonymy², Certhia familiaris Linnaeus.  ...  ² Int. Comm. Zool. Nomen., 1955, 1, Sec. C (C-8), pp. 89-112. Direction 17." (Greenway in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 150). Linnaeus's Certhia comprised five species (C. familiaris, C. pusilla, C. cærulea, C. cruentata, C. flaveola).  In nomenclature and generic combination the name is applied to a variety of thin- or curve-billed species, or those with creeper-like toes and claws.
Var. Cerithia, Cerethia, Cirthia, Certhius, Certhra, Corthia, Crethia.
Synon. Dendrobates.

certhia
Gr. κερθιος kerthios  small tree-dwelling insect-eating bird.
● "Pic grimpereau, BUFF. XIII. p. 122.  BRISS. Ornith. o. Picus certhia mihi  LINN. Gen. 59. o.  Climbing Grakle, LATH. birds. I. p. 467, II" (Boddaert 1783); ex “Picucule de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 621, and “Pic-grimpereau” of de Buffon 1770-1785: "nous avons cru devoir les nommer pic-grimpereaux, parce qu'ils sont la nuance entre le genre des pics & celui des grimpereaux; la première & la plus grande espèce, etant plus voisine des grimpereaux par son bec courbé, & la seconde étant au contraire plus voisine des pics par son bec droit. Toutes deux ont trois doigts en avant & un en arrière comme les grimpereaux, & en même temps les pennes de la queue roides & pointues comme les pics" (Dendrocolaptes).

himalayana / himalayanus
Himalaya Mts. < Sanskrit hima  snow; ālaya  abode.

SUBSPECIES

Bar-tailed Treecreeper (taeniura)
SCI Name: Certhia himalayana taeniura
taeniura / taeniurus
Gr. ταινια tainia  band; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

Bar-tailed Treecreeper (himalayana)
SCI Name: Certhia himalayana himalayana
himalayana / himalayanus
Himalaya Mts. < Sanskrit hima  snow; ālaya  abode.

Bar-tailed Treecreeper (yunnanensis)
SCI Name: Certhia himalayana yunnanensis
yunnanense / yunnanensis
Yunnan Province, China.

Bar-tailed Treecreeper (ripponi)
SCI Name: Certhia himalayana ripponi
ripponi
Lt.-Col. George Rippon (1861-1927) British Army in India and Burma 1880-1914 (subsp. Abroscopus schisticeps, subsp. Actinodura egertoni, syn. Carpodacus verreauxii, subsp. Certhia himalayana, subsp. Fulvetta vinipectus, Liocichla, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Pericrocotus ethologus, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, syn. Prunella collaris nipalensis, subsp. Suthora nipalensis).