Spectacled Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Sinosuthora conspicillata
Protonym:  [Suthora] conspicillata Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 7 p.9,14
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Sinosuthora
Taxonomy Code:  spepar2
Type Locality:  easternmost Kokonor.
Author:  David
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

conspicillata / conspicillatum / conspicillatus
Mod. L. conspicillatus  spectacled, with conspicuous eye-markings  < L. conspicillum  place to look from  < conspicere  to behold.

SUBSPECIES

Spectacled Parrotbill (conspicillata)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora conspicillata conspicillata
conspicillata / conspicillatum / conspicillatus
Mod. L. conspicillatus  spectacled, with conspicuous eye-markings  < L. conspicillum  place to look from  < conspicere  to behold.

Spectacled Parrotbill (rocki)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora conspicillata rocki
rocki
Dr Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884-1962) Austrian/US botanist, ornithologist, ethnologist, explorer in China 1924-1932, 1946-1949 (syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus bondi, subsp. Ithaginis cruentus, Prinia, subsp. Sinosuthora conspicillata, subsp. Spelaeornis troglodytoides).