White-tailed Nuthatch / Sitta himalayensis

White-tailed Nuthatch / Sitta himalayensis

White-tailed Nuthatch

SCI Name:  Sitta himalayensis
Protonym:  Sitta himalayensis Ill.Orn. 3 pl.144
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whtnut1
Type Locality:  Himalayas ; restricted to Simla by Meinertzhagen, 1927, Ibis, p. 410.
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Publish Year:  1835
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DEFINITIONS

SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch  < Gr. σιττη sittē  bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA.  Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta,  Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.

himalayensis
Himalaya Mts.  < Sanskrit hima  snow; ālaya  abode.