Red-browed Pardalote

SCI Name:  Pardalotus rubricatus
Protonym:  Pardalotus rubricatus Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 pl.62
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pardalotidae / Pardalotus
Taxonomy Code:  rebpar6
Type Locality:  Australia ; restricted to New South Wales by Mathews, 1912, Novit. Zool., 18 (1911), p. 389. Also described 1838, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 5 (1837), p. 149.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PARDALOTUS
(Pardalotidae; Ϯ Spotted Pardalote P. punctatus) French Pardalote  pardalote  <  Gr. παρδαλωτος pardalōtos  spotted like a leopard  < παρδαλος pardalos  leopard (cf. "Παρδαλωτος, spotted like a panther. I think the original name was pardalonotus, παρδαλος, spotted, νωτον, back: a very applicable designation" (Ashmolean 1836)); "PARDALOTE, Pardalotus.  Pipra, Lath.  Bec très-court, un peu robuste, à base dilatée sur les bords, entier, conoïde, épais à la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu arquée; l'inférieure convexe en dessous.   Esp. Pipra punctata, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Pardalotus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 31. Type, by monotypy, Pipra punctata Shaw and Nodder." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 202).
Var. Paradalotus, Pardalotis, Pardolotus.
Synon. Dipardalotus, Nesopardalotus, Pardalotinus, Spizites.

pardalotus
Gr. παρδαλωτος pardalōtos  spotted like a leopard  < παρδαλος pardalos  leopard.
● ex “Grimpar Flambé” of Levaillant 1807 (Xiphorhynchus).

rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus  red-ochred, ruddy  < rubrica  red-ochre  < ruber, rubra  red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).

SUBSPECIES

Red-browed Pardalote (yorki)
SCI Name: Pardalotus rubricatus yorki
yorki
Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia.
● York, Western Australia (syn. Lichmera indisticta).

Red-browed Pardalote (rubricatus)
SCI Name: Pardalotus rubricatus rubricatus
rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus  red-ochred, ruddy  < rubrica  red-ochre  < ruber, rubra  red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).