Ashy-throated Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Sinosuthora alphonsiana
Protonym:  Suthora Alphonsiana Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 6 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Sinosuthora
Taxonomy Code:  astpar1
Type Locality:  'les montagnes du Thibet chinois''; type from Chengtu, Szechwan, fide Yen, 1934, Journ. f. Orn., 82, p. 383.
Author:  Verreaux, J
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.

alphonsiana / alphonsianus
Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French zoologist, Director of Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1891-1900 (Sinosuthora).

SUBSPECIES

Ashy-throated Parrotbill (alphonsiana)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora alphonsiana alphonsiana
alphonsiana / alphonsianus
Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French zoologist, Director of Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1891-1900 (Sinosuthora).

Ashy-throated Parrotbill (yunnanensis)
SCI Name: Sinosuthora alphonsiana yunnanensis
yunnanense / yunnanensis
Yunnan Province, China.