Red-winged Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron formosum
Protonym:  Trochalopteron formosum Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 5 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  rewlau1
Type Locality:  'le Thibet oriental'' ; type specimens from western Szechwan, fide Verreaux, 1871.
Author:  Verreaux, J
Publish Year:  1869
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHALOPTERON
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Scaly Laughingthrush T. subunicolor) Gr. τροχαλος trokhalos  round, bowed; πτερον pteron  wing; "* In a list of specimens now on their way from Mr. Hodgson, I find three species mentioned, by the names leucopophlus (Quære leucolophos), erythropterus, and subunicolor; this last, with setafer and others, constituting Mr. Hodgson's division Trochalopteron, the propriety of adopting which name will depend on whether Mr. Swainson's Crateropus Reinwardii be considered admissable into the group, in which case it must bear the appellation Crateropus.  The specimens adverted to have since arrived, but Tr. leucopophlus (?) and erythropterus are not among them; and of Tr. subunicolor, a nestling specimen only is sent, of a species nearly allied to Tr. erythrocephalus, chrysopterus, and affinis, especially to the latter, but having a shorter and thicker bill than in that bird." (Blyth 1843); "Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 952, footnote. Type, by subsequent designation (Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. Inida, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 30), Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 348).
Var. Trochalopterum.
Synon. Galeropis, Montecincla, Pterocyclus, Strophocincla.

formosis / formosum / formosus
L. formosus beautiful  < forma  beauty.

SUBSPECIES

Red-winged Laughingthrush (formosum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron formosum formosum
formosis / formosum / formosus
L. formosus beautiful  < forma  beauty.

Red-winged Laughingthrush (greenwayi)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron formosum greenwayi
greenwayi
● Lt.-Commander James Cowan Greenway, Jr. (1903-1989) US Navy, ornithologist at MCZ 1932-1960, AMNH 1960-1989, conservationist (subsp. Trochalopteron formosum).
● Dr Percy James Greenway (1897-1980) South African botanist, East African Agricultural Research Station 1927-1950, East African Herbarium 1950-1958 (subsp. Tychaedon quadrivirgata).