Brown-headed Thrush

SCI Name:  Turdus chrysolaus
Protonym:  Turdus chrysolaus Pl.Col. livr.91 pl.537
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  brhthr1
Type Locality:  Japan.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TURDUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Mistle Thrush T. viscivorus) L. turdus  thrush; "95. TURDUS.  Rostrum tereti-cultratum, maxilla superiore apice deflexo.  Nares nudæ, superne membranula semitectæ.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 168. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 27), Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 177). Linnaeus's Turdus comprised sixteen species (T. viscivorus, T. pilaris, T. iliacus, T. musicus, T. Canorus, T. rufus, T. polyglottos, T. Orpheus, T. plumbeus, T. crinitus, T. roseus, T. Merula, T. torquatus, T. solitarius, T. arundinaceus, T. virens).   
Var. Turus, Trudus, Turtus, Curdus.     
Synon. Afrocichla, Arceuthornis, Cichlherminia, Cichloides, Cichloselys, Copsichus, Copsicus, Cossyphopsis, Galeoscoptes, Haplocichla, Hodoiporus, Iliacus, Ixocossyphus, Lamprophonus, Melizocincla, Meridiocichla, Merula, Merulissima, Mimocichla, Mimokitta, Nesocichla, Peliocichla, Petrocincla, Planesticus, Platycichla, Semimerula, Thoracocincla, Turdela, Turdicus.

turdus
L. turdus  thrush.
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 < French Grive thrush (syn. Erythropygia leucophrys).
● "89. Loxia Turdus F.  ...  Habitat in insula australi Novae Zeeelandiae, simillima Turdo, statura, colore, pedibus.  Corpus magnitudine Turdi viscivori, supra fuscum." (Forster 1844) (syn. Turnagra capensis).

chrysolaus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; λαιος laios thrush.

SUBSPECIES

Brown-headed Thrush (orii)
SCI Name: Turdus chrysolaus orii
orii
Hyojiro Orii (1883-?1948) Japanese collector in Japan, Korea, Manchuria and the Pacific (subsp. Aplonis opaca, subsp. Garrulus glandarius, subsp. Picoides kizuki, syn. Poecile palustris brevirostris, subsp. Pycnonotus sinensis, subsp. Sittiparus varius, subsp. Streptopelia orientalis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris, ‡syn. Troglodytes troglodytes mosukei, syn. Turdus chrysolaus).

Brown-headed Thrush (chrysolaus)
SCI Name: Turdus chrysolaus chrysolaus
chrysolaus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; λαιος laios thrush.