Bold-striped Tit-Babbler

SCI Name:  Mixornis bornensis
Protonym:  M[ixornis]. bornensis Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p. 217
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae / Mixornis
Taxonomy Code:  bostib1
Type Locality:  Borneo; type from Banjermasin, fide Pucheran, 1853, Voyage au Pole Sud, Zool., 3, p. 91.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MIXORNIS
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Pin-striped Tit-babbler M. gularis rubicapilla) Gr. μιξις mixis  compound; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "*T. chloris; Iora chloris, Hodgson, M.S.*: probably Motacilla rubicapilla, Tickell, J.A.S. II. 576, though the description there applies equally to this and the preceding nearly allied species.   ...   * Mr. Hodgson has since proposed the subdivisional name Mixornis for this bird, and the preceding species [T. gularis] ranks with it" (Blyth 1842); "Mixornis, Mihi (μιξις, compound]   ...  Type M. chloris [Timalia and Iora chloris, XI, 794; closely allied to T. gularis, Horsfield]   ...   Shy and exclusively arboreal. Essentially linked to the two last [Erpornis, Stachyris] by its powerful bill and creeping feet, but leans towards Iora and Sylvian forms in the depression of the base of the bill" (Hodgson 1844); "Mixornis Blyth, 1842, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11, p. 794, footnote. Type, by original designation, Timalia chloris Blyth = Macronous gularis rubicapillus (Tickell)." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 318).

bornea / borneana / borneanum / borneanus / borneense / borneensis / bornensis / borneoensis / borneonense / borneonensis / borneus
Borneo  < Malay Brunei  the Barunai or Brunei Sultanate, wealthy, powerful and more extensive in the 15th century  < Sanskrit Váruna  water, rain.
● Erroneous TL. Borneo (= Amboina); "44. PSITTACUS.  ...  borneus.  6. P. macrourus ruber, remigibus rectricibusque apice viridibus, alis macula cærulea.  Psittacus coccineus, cauda longiore. Edw. av. 173. t. 173.  Habitat in India: Borneo." (Linnaeus 1758) (Eos). This name, albeit erroneous, is the fourth toponym in avian nomenclature.

SUBSPECIES

Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Bold-striped)
SCI Name: Mixornis bornensis [bornensis Group]
MIXORNIS
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Pin-striped Tit-babbler M. gularis rubicapilla) Gr. μιξις mixis  compound; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "*T. chloris; Iora chloris, Hodgson, M.S.*: probably Motacilla rubicapilla, Tickell, J.A.S. II. 576, though the description there applies equally to this and the preceding nearly allied species.   ...   * Mr. Hodgson has since proposed the subdivisional name Mixornis for this bird, and the preceding species [T. gularis] ranks with it" (Blyth 1842); "Mixornis, Mihi (μιξις, compound]   ...  Type M. chloris [Timalia and Iora chloris, XI, 794; closely allied to T. gularis, Horsfield]   ...   Shy and exclusively arboreal. Essentially linked to the two last [Erpornis, Stachyris] by its powerful bill and creeping feet, but leans towards Iora and Sylvian forms in the depression of the base of the bill" (Hodgson 1844); "Mixornis Blyth, 1842, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11, p. 794, footnote. Type, by original designation, Timalia chloris Blyth = Macronous gularis rubicapillus (Tickell)." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 318).

Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mapun)
SCI Name: Mixornis bornensis cagayanensis
cagayanense / cagayanensis
● Cagayan Sulu, Tawi-Tawi Province, Philippines (subsp. Anthreptes malacensis, syn. Dicrurus palawanensis, subsp. Mixornis gularis, subsp. Orthotomus ruficeps).
● Cagayan Province, north-eastern Luzon, Philippines (subsp. Dasylophus superciliosus, subsp. Dicaeum hypoleucum).