Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Ianthocincla treacheri
Protonym:  Ianthocincla treacheri Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part II, Meeting of March 4, 1879 p. 248, pl. XXIII
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Ianthocincla
Taxonomy Code:  chhlau1
Type Locality:  Kina Balu, Borneo.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1879
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ianthocincla
(syn. Garrulax Ϯ Spotted Laughingthrush G. ocellatus) Gr. ιονθος ionthos  young hair, down; Mod. L. cinclus  thrush  < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos  unidentified small waterside bird; "IANTHOCINCLA  ...  Typus genericus. Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vig.  Montium Himalayæ Incolæ.   The chief distinguishing characteristics of the genus Ianthocincla are the comparative length of the tarsus; the length of the hinder toe, and the great length of the claw by which it is terminated; the roundness, concavity, softness, and yielding character of the wings and tail; and the peculiar fullness, lightness, and downiness of the whole of the plumage, and particularly of that of the back and rump. The downy nature of the covering is alluded to in the generic name." (Gould 1835).   Var. Janthocincla, Xanthocincla, Yantocincla, Zanthocincla.

treacheri
Sir William Hood Treacher (1849-1919) British colonial administrator, Gov. of British North Borneo 1881-1887, Resident-Gen. of the Federated Malay States 1902-1904 (Garrulax).

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush (damnata)
SCI Name: Ianthocincla treacheri damnata
damnata / damnatus
L. damnatus  condemned, doomed  < damnare  to punish.
● “This was by far the most numerous bird in the moss-forest on Dulit ... We had to stop natives from shooting it, as we had neither the time nor the ammunition to spare. Rhinocichla was a curse; therefore damnata” (Harrison & Hartley 1934) (subsp. Garrulax treacheri).

Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush (griswoldi)
SCI Name: Ianthocincla treacheri griswoldi
griswoldi
John Augustus Griswold, Jr. (1912-1991) US zoologist, explorer, collector in Peru, Thailand and Borneo (subsp. Garrulax treacheri).

Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush (treacheri)
SCI Name: Ianthocincla treacheri treacheri
treacheri
Sir William Hood Treacher (1849-1919) British colonial administrator, Gov. of British North Borneo 1881-1887, Resident-Gen. of the Federated Malay States 1902-1904 (Garrulax).