Assam Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron chrysopterum
Protonym:  Ianthocincla chrysoptera Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part III, Meeting of March 24, 1835 p. 48
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  asslau1
Type Locality:  Himalayas; type characteristic of population of Khasi Hills, Assam, fide Oates, 1889, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, 1, p. 90.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1835
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHALOPTERON
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Scaly Laughingthrush T. subunicolor) Gr. τροχαλος trokhalos  round, bowed; πτερον pteron  wing; "* In a list of specimens now on their way from Mr. Hodgson, I find three species mentioned, by the names leucopophlus (Quære leucolophos), erythropterus, and subunicolor; this last, with setafer and others, constituting Mr. Hodgson's division Trochalopteron, the propriety of adopting which name will depend on whether Mr. Swainson's Crateropus Reinwardii be considered admissable into the group, in which case it must bear the appellation Crateropus.  The specimens adverted to have since arrived, but Tr. leucopophlus (?) and erythropterus are not among them; and of Tr. subunicolor, a nestling specimen only is sent, of a species nearly allied to Tr. erythrocephalus, chrysopterus, and affinis, especially to the latter, but having a shorter and thicker bill than in that bird." (Blyth 1843); "Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 952, footnote. Type, by subsequent designation (Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. Inida, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 30), Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 348).
Var. Trochalopterum.
Synon. Galeropis, Montecincla, Pterocyclus, Strophocincla.

chrysoptera / chrysopterum
Gr. χρυσοπτερος khrusopteros  golden-winged  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Yellow-winged Creeper” of Latham 1787 (syn. Cinnyris asiaticus).
● ex "Orange-winged Nuthatch" of Latham 1801 (Daphoenositta).
● ex “Yellow-winged Bunting” of Portlock 1789 (syn. Melanodera melanodera).
● "114. MOTACILLA.  ...  chrysoptera.  20. M. fusca, subtus alba, pileo maculaque alarum luteis, gula nigra.  Motacilla alis aureis. Edw. av. - - t. 299.  Habitat in Pensylvania.  Pileus fulvus. Macula pone oculos gulaque nigra. Linea alba supra infraque oculos. Tectrices alarum luteæ, maculam magnam constituentes." (Linnaeus 1766) (Vermivora).

SUBSPECIES

Assam Laughingthrush (chrysopterum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron chrysopterum chrysopterum
chrysoptera / chrysopterum
Gr. χρυσοπτερος khrusopteros  golden-winged  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Yellow-winged Creeper” of Latham 1787 (syn. Cinnyris asiaticus).
● ex "Orange-winged Nuthatch" of Latham 1801 (Daphoenositta).
● ex “Yellow-winged Bunting” of Portlock 1789 (syn. Melanodera melanodera).
● "114. MOTACILLA.  ...  chrysoptera.  20. M. fusca, subtus alba, pileo maculaque alarum luteis, gula nigra.  Motacilla alis aureis. Edw. av. - - t. 299.  Habitat in Pensylvania.  Pileus fulvus. Macula pone oculos gulaque nigra. Linea alba supra infraque oculos. Tectrices alarum luteæ, maculam magnam constituentes." (Linnaeus 1766) (Vermivora).

Assam Laughingthrush (godwini)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron chrysopterum godwini
godwini
Lt.-Col. Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923) British Army surveyor who gave his name to the Himalayan peak Mt. Godwin-Austen or K2 (subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, subsp. Trochalopteron chrysopterum).

Assam Laughingthrush (erythrolaemum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron chrysopterum erythrolaemum
erythrolaema / erythrolaemum / erythrolaemus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; λαιμος laimos  throat.

Assam Laughingthrush (woodi)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron chrysopterum woodi
woodi
• Dr Casey Albert Wood (1856-1942) Canadian ophthalmologist, bibliophile, ornithologist (syn. Amazona finschi, syn. Grus canadensis, subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer, subsp. Lalage maculosa).
• Capt. Leonard Wood, Jr. (1892-1931) US Army, son of Gov.-Gen. of Philippines (subsp. Cinnyris jugularis).
• Norman Asa Wood (1857-1943) US zoologist at Michigan University Mus. of Zoology 1895-1932 (syn. Dinopium benghalense tehminae).
• Col. Henry Wood (1872-1940) British Army surveyor in India (Garrulax, subsp. Trochalopteron chrysopterum).
• Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood (1860-1927) US Army surgeon, Military Gov. of Cuba 1899-1902, Gov.-Gen. of Philippines 1906-1908 (Leonardina).
• William Watkins Wood (fl. 1875) US journalist in China, naturalist, plantation manager, pioneer photographer in the Philippines (subsp. Mixornis gularis).

Assam Laughingthrush (ailaoshanense)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron chrysopterum ailaoshanense
ailaoshanense / ailaoshanensis
Āiláo Shān, Shuanbai, Yunnan, China.