Jerdon's Babbler

SCI Name:  Chrysomma altirostre
Protonym:  Chrysomma altirostre Ibis p.22
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Chrysomma
Taxonomy Code:  jerbab1
Type Locality:  'Islands on the Burrampootra river, in Upper Burmah''; type from an island in the Irrawaddy off Thayetmyo, fide Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 513.
Author:  Jerdon
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOMMA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Yellow-eyed Babbler C. sinense hypoleucum) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ομμα omma, ομματος ommatos  eye; "Timalia Horsfieldi, Jardine and Selby, is identical with T. hypoleuca, Franklin, which latter appellation holds precedence.  I understand that both this and T. hyperythra, Franklin, have recently been figured by M. Guérin in his Magasin de Zoologie.  The former constitutes Mr. Hodgson's genus Chrysomma." (Blyth 1843); "Chrysomma Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 181.  Type, by original designation, Timalia hypoleuca Franklin." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 327).
Var. Chrysomena.
Syn. Erythrops, Pyctoris.

altirostre / altirostris
L. altus  high, great, deep, noble  < alere  to nourish; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Jerdon's Babbler (scindicum)
SCI Name: Chrysomma altirostre scindicum
scindeanus / scindica / scindicum / scindicus
Sind, India (= Sindh, Pakistan)  < Sanskrit Sindhu  river (i.e. the Indus R.).

Jerdon's Babbler (griseigulare)
SCI Name: Chrysomma altirostre griseigulare
griseigulare / griseigularis
Med. L. griseum  grey; Mod. L. gularis  throated  < L. gula  throat.

Jerdon's Babbler (altirostre)
SCI Name: Chrysomma altirostre altirostre
altirostre / altirostris
L. altus  high, great, deep, noble  < alere  to nourish; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.