Sunda Laughingthrush / Garrulax palliatus

Sunda Laughingthrush / Garrulax palliatus

Sunda Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Garrulax palliatus
Protonym:  [Janthocincla] palliata Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.371
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae /
Taxonomy Code:  sunlau1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

GARRULAX
(Leiotrichidae; White-crested Laughingthrush G. leucolophus belangeri) Genus Garrulus Brisson, 1760, jay; L. -ax  inclining towards (cf. L. garrulus  babbling  <  garrire  to babble); from their noisy behavious the laughingthrushes were formerly known as jay-thrushes; "CII.e Le genre GARRULAXE; Garrulax, Lesson.   ...   Observ. Ce genre est très-distinct des geais et des merles, avec lesquels on a voulu associer les espèces qui le composent, et qui vivent dans l'Inde.  Ce sont:  1.º Le GARRULAXE DE BÉLANGER; Garrulax Belangeri, Less., Zool. du Voy. aux Indes orientales, pl. 4   ...   Cet oiseau est nommé weraôu par les habitans du Pégu, sa patrie.   2.º Le GARRULAXE A FRONT ROUX; Garrulax rufifrons, Less., Zool. du Voy. de Bélanger, pl. 5.   ...   De Java.   3.º Le GARRULAXE AZUR; Garrulax azureus. Less.   ...   Habite le Pégu." (Lesson 1831); "Garrulax Lesson, 1831 (June), Traité d'Orn.: 647.  Type, by subsequent designation, Gray, 1846, Garrulax Belangeri Lesson, but nomen nudum, type hereby designated, Garrulax rufifrons Lesson." (Ripley, 1961, Synopsis Birds India Pakistan, p. 380); "GARRULAX Lesson, 1831  M— Garrulax belangeri Lesson, 1831; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds, p. 44)." (Dickinson and Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 541).
Synon. Allocotops, Babax, Dryonastes, Garrulaxis, Ianthocincla, Kaznakowia, Leucodioptron, Melanocichla, Pterorhinus, Rhinocichla, Stactocichla.

palliata / palliatus
L. palliatus cloaked, mantled < pallium cloak, mantle.

SUBSPECIES

Sunda Laughingthrush (palliatus)
SCI Name: Garrulax palliatus palliatus
palliata / palliatus
L. palliatus cloaked, mantled < pallium cloak, mantle.

Sunda Laughingthrush (schistochlamys)
SCI Name: Garrulax palliatus schistochlamys
SCHISTOCHLAMYS
(Thraupidae; Cinnamon Tanager S. ruficapillus capistrata) Late L. schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split; Gr. χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos  mantle, cloak.  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the distinctive small mask of the Cinnamon Tanager; "Gen. SCHISTOCHLAMYS Reichb. 1850. Graumantel.  Diucopis (!) Bonap. pt." (Cabanis 1851); G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 73, gives Tanagra fasciata Lichtenstein, 1823 (now in Neothraupis) as the type, but Reichenbach's figure is clearly not that form; "Schistochlamys Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77.  Type, by subsequent designation (P. L. Sclater, 1886, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 11, p. 301), Tanagra capistrata Wied." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 247).
Synon. Diucopis.