Manchurian Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Horornis canturians
Protonym:  Arundinax canturians Ibis p.52
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Horornis
Taxonomy Code:  manbuw1
Type Locality:  Amoy ( = Hsia-men) and Shanghai.
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1860
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.

canturiens / canturians
L. canturiens, canturientis  chirping  < canturire  to chirp  < cantare  to sing  < canere  to sing (cf. L. cantula  unknown small bird).

SUBSPECIES

Manchurian Bush Warbler (borealis)
SCI Name: Horornis canturians borealis
borealis
L. borealis  northern  < boreas  north wind, north  < Gr. βορεας boreas  north wind, north. This epithet refers not only to northern latitudes but also to a distribution or range north of previously known forms.
● King George Bay, Alaska; ex “Boreal Sandpiper” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aphriza virgata).
● Carolina; ex “American Buzzard” of Latham 1781, and “Red-tailed Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (subsp. Buteo jamaicensis).
● Erroneous TL. Northern United States (= South Carolina) (Leuconotopicus).
● Erroneous TL. "Kamtschatka" (= Princes I., Java); ex “Rusty-headed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Orthotomus sepium).
● Erroneous TL. Iceland (= Norway) (subsp. Poecile montanus).

Manchurian Bush Warbler (canturians)
SCI Name: Horornis canturians canturians
canturiens / canturians
L. canturiens, canturientis  chirping  < canturire  to chirp  < cantare  to sing  < canere  to sing (cf. L. cantula  unknown small bird).