Banasura Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Montecincla jerdoni
Protonym:  Garrulax (?) Jerdoni J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 20 p.522
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Montecincla
Taxonomy Code:  bkclau1
Type Locality:  southern India; type from Balasore Peak, ''a high hill at the edge of the Ghats separating Malabar from the Wynaad,'' fide Jerdon, 1863, Birds India, 2, p. 50.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

Montecincla
(syn. Trochalopteron Ϯ Nilgiri Laughingthrush T. cachinnans) L. mons, montis  mountain; Mod. L. cinclus  thrush  < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos  small unidentified waterside bird; "Montecincla genus novum.  ... Type species: C. [= Crateropus] cachinnaus [sic] Jerdon, 1839  ... We chose this appropriate moniker because the genus is confined to the higher mountains of the Western Ghats" (Robin et al. 2017).

jerdoni
Surgeon-Maj. Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811-1872) British Army in India 1836-1870, field ornithologist, collector (subsp. Anthus similis, Aviceda, subsp. Charadrius dubius, Chloropsis, subsp. Cyornis tickelliae, syn. Dryocopus javensis feddeni, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti (ex Amadina pectoralis Blyth ex Jerdon MS, 1844), syn. Machlolophus xanthogenys aplonotus, subsp. Minla ignotincta, syn. Otus bakkamoena, syn. Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (ex Xanclostomus viridirostris Jerdon, 1840), subsp. Phylloscopus xanthoschistos, syn. Prinia sylvatica, subsp. Prunella strophiata,  syn. Rimator malacoptilus, Saxicola, syn. Sterna acuticauda, subsp. Sylvia crassirostris, syn. Timalia pileata bengalensis, syn. Timalia pileata intermedia, syn. Treron phoenicopterus chlorigaster, Trochalopteron).