Scaly Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron subunicolor
Protonym:  Tr[ochalopteron]. subunicolor J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.952,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  scalau1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1843
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.

subunicolor
L. sub  underneath, somewhat; unicolor, unicoloris  uniform, plain, of one colour  < uni-  single-   < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● L. sub  near to; specific name Sturnus unicolor Temminck, 1820 (syn. Sturnus unicolor).

SUBSPECIES

Scaly Laughingthrush (subunicolor)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron subunicolor subunicolor
subunicolor
L. sub  underneath, somewhat; unicolor, unicoloris  uniform, plain, of one colour  < uni-  single-   < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● L. sub  near to; specific name Sturnus unicolor Temminck, 1820 (syn. Sturnus unicolor).

Scaly Laughingthrush (griseatum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron subunicolor griseatum
griseata / griseatum / griseatus
Mod. L. griseatus  grey  < Med. L. griseum  grey.

Scaly Laughingthrush (fooksi)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron subunicolor fooksi
fooksi
Francis Edward Fooks (1892-1967) British aviculturalist, Director of Clères Zoological Park (subsp. Trochalopteron subunicolor).