Yellow-billed Nuthatch

SCI Name:  Sitta solangiae
Protonym:  Calositta solangiae Ois.Rev.FranceOrn. 11 pt2 no.7 p.395
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  yebnut1
Type Locality:  Loquiho, near Chapa, Tonkin.
Author:  Delacour & Jabouille
Publish Year:  1930
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

solangiae
Solange de La Rochefoucauld-Estissac Princesse Murat (1894-1955), daughter of Xavier Comte de La Rochefoucauld-Estissac, wife of French collector Paul Jérome Michel Joachim Napoléon Prince Murat (Sitta).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-billed Nuthatch (solangiae)
SCI Name: Sitta solangiae solangiae
solangiae
Solange de La Rochefoucauld-Estissac Princesse Murat (1894-1955), daughter of Xavier Comte de La Rochefoucauld-Estissac, wife of French collector Paul Jérome Michel Joachim Napoléon Prince Murat (Sitta).

Yellow-billed Nuthatch (fortior)
SCI Name: Sitta solangiae fortior
fortior
L. fortior, fortioris  stronger  < comp. fortis  strong.

Yellow-billed Nuthatch (chienfengensis)
SCI Name: Sitta solangiae chienfengensis
chienfengensis
Chieng-feng-ling, Hainan, China.