Rusty-throated Parrotbill / Sinosuthora przewalskii

Rusty-throated Parrotbill / Sinosuthora przewalskii

Rusty-throated Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Sinosuthora przewalskii
Protonym:  Suthora Przewalskii Av.Exped.Potanini p.67 pl.2 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rutpar2
Type Locality:  Hsiku and Minchow districts, southern Kansu.
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Publish Year:  1891
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DEFINITIONS

SINOSUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Spectacled Parrotbill S. conspicillata) Mod. English Sino-  Chinese-  < Late L. Sinae  Chinese  < Gr. Σιναι Sinai  Chinese; genus Suthora Hodgson, 1837, parrotbill; "Sinosuthora new genus  Diagnosis: small parrotbills 11-15cm in length. Relatively plain in coloration, with brown to rufous-chestnut-fringed wings; all lack pronounced lateral crown-stripes.  Type: Suthora conspicillata A. David, 1871.  Gender: feminine" (Penhallurick & Robson 2009). The Spectacled Parrotbill is confined to China, where all the other members of the genus are also found, with a few outlying populations in bordering countries.
Synon. Sinoparadoxornis.

przewalskii
Gen. Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888) Russian Army, explorer, naturalist in Central Asia (subsp. Cinclus cinclus, subsp. Eremophila longirostris, Grallaria, syn. Lanius excubitor homeyeri, syn. Loxia curvirostra tianschanica, subsp. Saxicola torquatus, Sinosuthora, Sitta, subsp. Tetraogallus tibetanus).