Gray-headed Chickadee

SCI Name:  Poecile cinctus
Protonym:  Parus cinctus TablePlanchesEnlum. p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Poecile
Taxonomy Code:  gyhchi
Type Locality:  Siberia.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos  unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris.   ...   4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes.   Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder.   L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen.   ...   **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829  M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.

cinctus
L. cinctus girdled, wreathed, banded < cingere to encircle.
● ex “Mésange à ceinture blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Poecile).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-headed Chickadee (lapponicus)
SCI Name: Poecile cinctus lapponicus
lapponica / lapponicum / lapponicus
Lapponia (= Lapland).
● ex “Fringilla major. Greater Bunting” of Albin 1738, and “Fringilla capite nigricante maculato: macula pone oculos alba” of Linnaeus 1746 (Calcarius).
● ex Tetrao lagopus Montin, 1781, and “Rehusak Grous ” of Pennant 1785 (syn. Lagopus lagopus).
● "77. SCOLOPAX.  ...  lapponica.  12. S. rostro subrecurvato, pedibusque nigris, pectore ferrugineo.  Recurvirostra pectore croceo. Fn. svec. 138.  Habitat in Lapponia. Rudbeck." (Linnaeus 1758) (Limosa).

Gray-headed Chickadee (cinctus)
SCI Name: Poecile cinctus cinctus
cinctus
L. cinctus girdled, wreathed, banded < cingere to encircle.
● ex “Mésange à ceinture blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Poecile).

Gray-headed Chickadee (sayanus)
SCI Name: Poecile cinctus sayanus
sayana / sayanus
Sayan Mts., Siberia, Russia.

Gray-headed Chickadee (lathami)
SCI Name: Poecile cinctus lathami
lathami / lathamii
Dr John Latham (1740-1837) English ornithologist (syn. Aegolius harrisii (ex “Rufous Owl” of Latham 1821), Alectura (ex “New Holland Vulture” of Latham 1821), syn. Aviceda leuphotes, syn. Calliope calliope, syn. Calorhamphus fuliginosus (ex “Buff-faced Barbet” of Latham 1782), Calyptorhynchus (ex “Banksian Cockatoo, var. B” of Latham 1802), syn. Colaptes cafer, syn. Daphoenositta chrysoptera, Emberiza, syn. Eos bornea, syn. Falco columbarius, syn. Fratercula cirrhata, syn. Hierococcyx varius, syn. Lathamus discolor (ex “Perruche Latham” of Levaillant 1801), Lophura, Peliperdix, syn. Petroica rodinogaster, subsp. Poecile cinctus, subsp. Quelea quelea, syn. Sericornis citreogularis, syn. Stagonopleura guttata, syn. Tachybaptus ruficollis, syn. Threskiornis spinicollis, syn. Trachyphonus vaillantii, syn. Tragopan satyra, syn. Tringa stagnatilis).