Siberian Thrush

SCI Name:  Geokichla sibirica
Protonym:  Turdus sibiricus ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 3 p.694
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Geokichla
Taxonomy Code:  sibthr1
Type Locality:  Siberia [= Konda River, Transbaicalia, vide Pallas, ibid., p. 186] .
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GEOKICHLA
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-headed Thrush G. citrina) Gr. γεω- geō- ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; "Vogels.   ...   Geo-Kichla singularis." (Macklot 1830) (nom. nud.); "Myiothera loricata, MULL., pl. V. fig. 5.  Behoort tot de afdeeling der grootere soorten van vliegenjagers, bij welke de staart iets meer verlengd is, en die door geheele gedaante reeds sterk tot de lijsters (Turdi) naderen. Tusschen hen en dit laatste geslacht staat het genus: Geokichla BOIE, waarvan de Turdus citrinus LATH. de typus is." (S. Müller 1835); "Geokichla Müller, 1835, Tijdschr. Natuur. Gesch. Phys., 2, pl. 3, p. 348.  Type, by original designation, Turdus citrinus Latham." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 144). 
Synon. Cryptocichla, Geocichloides, Pseudoturdus, Turdulus.

geokichla
Gr. γεω- geō-  ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush.

sibirica / sibiricum / sibiricus
Mod. L. Sibiricus  Siberian  < Sibiria  Siberia, northern Asiatic Russia  < Sibir, a former Tartar khanate of western Siberia, west of the Yenisey.
● ex “Dun Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783, and Pennant 1785 (Muscicapa).
● ex “Siberian Titmouse” of Latham 1783 (syn. Poecile cinctus).

SUBSPECIES

Siberian Thrush (sibirica)
SCI Name: Geokichla sibirica sibirica
sibirica / sibiricum / sibiricus
Mod. L. Sibiricus  Siberian  < Sibiria  Siberia, northern Asiatic Russia  < Sibir, a former Tartar khanate of western Siberia, west of the Yenisey.
● ex “Dun Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783, and Pennant 1785 (Muscicapa).
● ex “Siberian Titmouse” of Latham 1783 (syn. Poecile cinctus).

Siberian Thrush (davisoni)
SCI Name: Geokichla sibirica davisoni
davisoni
William Ruxton Davison (1850-1893) British field-ornithologist, collector for A. C. Hume in Tenasserim, Curator of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1887-1893 (subsp. Alcippe poioicephala, subsp. Geokichla sibirica, subsp. Hemixos flavala, syn. Hydrornis caeruleus, subsp. Lalage nigra, Leioptila, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, subsp. Phylloscopus montis, syn. Phylloscopus intensior muleyitensis, Pseudibis, subsp. Psilopogon asiaticus, Pycnonotus, subsp. Spilornis cheela, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).