Arrow-marked Babbler

SCI Name:  Turdoides jardineii
Protonym:  Cratopus Jardineii Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.45
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Turdoides
Taxonomy Code:  armbab1
Type Locality:  banks of rivers beyond Kurrichane, northwestern Transvaal.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TURDOIDES
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ White-headed Babbler T. leucocephala) Genus Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, thrush; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "Turdoides leucocephala, (Mus. Francof.)  Weißköpfiger Droßling.   ...   Die Droßlinge (Turdoides) bilden eine von den Droßeln (Turdus) wohl zu unterscheidende Familie, die eine Menge von Arten zählt, von denen Rüppel bereits vier aus dem nördlichen Afrika eingesendet hat. Wir werden die Abbildungen und Beschreibungen von dreyen derselben in dem Atlas liefern. Auch erwarten wir duie Bekanntmachung anderer in Indien entdeckten Arten der Gattung Turdoides von Herrn Temminck, der solche zuerst aufgestellt hat." (Cretzschmar 1827); "Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1827, in Rüppell's Atlas, Vög., hft. 4, p. 6, pl. 4. Type, by monotypy, Turdoides leucocephalus Cretzschmar." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 331).
Var. Tordoides.
Synon. Aethocichla, Aipunemia, Crateropus, Cratopus, Ischyropodus, Layardia, Malacocircus, Malcolmia, Pengia.

turdoides
L. turdus  thrush; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling.
● “Both Seebohm and Saunders have used Meyer’s name Sylvia turdoides, 1815, for the Great Reed-Warbler, because, according to the first named, Linnaeus in placing the species under the genus Turdus made the definition quite misleading. Turdus arundinaceus of Linnaeus was, however, founded on Klein’s Turdus musicus palustris, which undoubtedly refers to the Great Reed-Warbler, and there can be no objection to the name, which is the oldest and has always been more or less in use” (BOU 1915) (syn. Acrocephalus arundinaceus).
● “Altogether of a much Thrush-like appearance” (Hartert 1896) (Cataponera).
● "14.  COLLURICINCLE GRIVELÉ.  —  COLLURICINCLA TURDOIDES.  ...  Ce Colluricincle est originaire de Raffles-Bay.  Il appartient à la section des espèces de ce genre qui est caractérisée par un bec plus large et moins comprimée.  Ses couleurs et sa petite taille le rapprochent du Colluricincla brunnea Gould; il s'en isole par la coloration à peu près uniforme de la région thoraco-abdominale." (Pucheran 1853) (syn. Colluricincla parvula).

jardinei / jardineii / jardini / jardinii
● “Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk ...I propose to call [it] ...in commemoration of the collection from which it passed into that of the Norwich Museum” (Gurney 1887) (syn. Accipiter poliogaster).
● Sir William Jardine, Bt. (1800-1874) Scottish ornithologist (Boissonneaua, syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus bifasciatus ("jardinei"), syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus ("jardinii"), syn. Circus assimilis (ex “Circus affinis Jardine & Selby” = Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828), syn. Edolisoma tenuirostre (ex Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine, 1831), Glaucidium, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Leuconotopicus villosus, syn. Melanodryas cucullata, syn. Sarothrura affinis, syn. Spodiornis rusticus, syn. Tityra inquisitor, Turdoides, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Jardine Creek, Cape York, Queensland, Australia (syn. Lichmera cockerelli, subsp. Melloria quoyi).

SUBSPECIES

Arrow-marked Babbler (emini)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii emini
emini
Mehmet Emin Bey, later Emin Pasha, the adopted name of Dr Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer (1840-1892) German administrator in the Ottoman service, Pasha of Equatorial Province, Egyptian Sudan 1878-1889, physician, naturalist, collector, murdered by Arab slave-traders (subsp. Agapornis swindernianus, subsp. Argya rubiginosa, syn. Aviceda cuculoides verreauxi, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cisticola aberrans, syn. Cisticola chiniana humilis, syn. Cisticola woosnami, syn. Coturnix adansonii, subsp. Criniger calurus, syn. Glareola nuchalis, subsp. Lamprotornis chalcurus, subsp. Ploceus baglafecht, syn. Prodotiscus insignis, syn. Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis, syn. Pterocles exustus, syn. Pternistis icterorhynchus, syn. Ptilopachus petrosus, subsp. Pytilia phoenicoptera, subsp. Rhinopomastus aterrimus, subsp. Rhinoptilus cinctus, subsp. Salpornis salvadori, subsp. Sporopipes frontalis, subsp. Tauraco schuettii, subsp. Tchagra australis, subsp. Terpsiphone rufiventer, Trachyphonus, subsp. Turdoides jardineii).
● See: eminibey

Arrow-marked Babbler (kirkii)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii kirkii
kirki / kirkii
● Dr Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) Scottish naturalist, colonial administrator, physician with David Livingstone on second Zambezi expedition 1858-1863, Consul to Zanzibar 1866-1887 (subsp. Chalcomitra amethystina, syn. Dendroperdix rovuma, subsp. Prionops scopifrons, syn. Pytilia melba soudanensis, subsp. Turdoides jardineii, Zosterops).
● John Kirk (fl. 1845) collector on Tobago (Veniliornis).

Arrow-marked Babbler (hyposticta)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii hyposticta
hyposticta / hypostictus
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

Arrow-marked Babbler (tanganjicae)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii tanganjicae
tanganicae / tanganjicae / tanganyicae / tanganyika / tanganyikae
Lake Tanganyika, east Africa.

Arrow-marked Babbler (tamalakanei)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii tamalakanei
tamalakanei
Tamalakane River, Maun, Bechuanaland / Botswana.

Arrow-marked Babbler (jardineii)
SCI Name: Turdoides jardineii jardineii
jardinei / jardineii / jardini / jardinii
● “Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk ...I propose to call [it] ...in commemoration of the collection from which it passed into that of the Norwich Museum” (Gurney 1887) (syn. Accipiter poliogaster).
● Sir William Jardine, Bt. (1800-1874) Scottish ornithologist (Boissonneaua, syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus bifasciatus ("jardinei"), syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus ("jardinii"), syn. Circus assimilis (ex “Circus affinis Jardine & Selby” = Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828), syn. Edolisoma tenuirostre (ex Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine, 1831), Glaucidium, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Leuconotopicus villosus, syn. Melanodryas cucullata, syn. Sarothrura affinis, syn. Spodiornis rusticus, syn. Tityra inquisitor, Turdoides, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Jardine Creek, Cape York, Queensland, Australia (syn. Lichmera cockerelli, subsp. Melloria quoyi).