Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Horornis fortipes
Protonym:  Horornis fortipes Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt13 no.146 p.31
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Horornis
Taxonomy Code:  bfbwar1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HORORNIS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler H. fortipes) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  hill; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The others have the tarse scutellate and rather longer, and the tail broad and fan-shaped, and not at all rigid or worn; these I style Horornis, though they hardly deserve subgeneric separation.   ...  Genus Horornis, mihi.  General structure of Tribura, but the rictus more or less armed; the tarse strongly scaled; the wings more gradated, having the fifth or sixth longest, and the tail broad, fan-shaped, and not worn or rigid. Inhabits the northern hills; manners unknown.  Types, fortipes and flaviventris.  H. fortipes, mihi.   ...   H. flaviventris, mihi.   ...   H.? fuligiventer, mihi.— Aberrant; probably a Tribura.   ...   H.? fulviventris, mihi." (Hodgson 1845); "550. HORORNIS, Hodgs. 1844.  (Horornis flaviventris, Hodgs.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Horornis Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 31. Types H. fortipes and H. flaviventris; restricted to H. fortipes (Seebohm, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 5, p. 133)." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 8) (see Tribura).   
Synon. Antiornis, Drymochaera, Gladkovia, Herbivox, Homochlamys, Psamathia, Vitia.

fortipes
L. fortis  stout; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

SUBSPECIES

Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler (Brownish-flanked)
SCI Name: Horornis fortipes [fortipes Group]
HORORNIS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler H. fortipes) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  hill; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The others have the tarse scutellate and rather longer, and the tail broad and fan-shaped, and not at all rigid or worn; these I style Horornis, though they hardly deserve subgeneric separation.   ...  Genus Horornis, mihi.  General structure of Tribura, but the rictus more or less armed; the tarse strongly scaled; the wings more gradated, having the fifth or sixth longest, and the tail broad, fan-shaped, and not worn or rigid. Inhabits the northern hills; manners unknown.  Types, fortipes and flaviventris.  H. fortipes, mihi.   ...   H. flaviventris, mihi.   ...   H.? fuligiventer, mihi.— Aberrant; probably a Tribura.   ...   H.? fulviventris, mihi." (Hodgson 1845); "550. HORORNIS, Hodgs. 1844.  (Horornis flaviventris, Hodgs.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Horornis Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 31. Types H. fortipes and H. flaviventris; restricted to H. fortipes (Seebohm, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 5, p. 133)." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 8) (see Tribura).   
Synon. Antiornis, Drymochaera, Gladkovia, Herbivox, Homochlamys, Psamathia, Vitia.

Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler (Taiwan)
SCI Name: Horornis fortipes robustipes
robustipes
L. robustus  strong, robust  < robur, roboris  hardwood; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.