Black-headed Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Psittiparus margaritae
Protonym:  Psittiparus margaritae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 47 p. 167
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Psittiparus
Taxonomy Code:  bkhpar1
Type Locality:  Jirinh [lat. 11° 31'' N., long. 108° 01'' E.], Annam.
Author:  Delacour
Publish Year:  1927
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PSITTIPARUS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ White-breasted Parrotbill P. ruficeps) L. psittacus  parrot  < Gr. ψιττακος psittakos  parrot; Late L. parus  tit; "Psittiparus Hellm. *)  1889 Scaeorhynchus (Sp. typ.: S. ruficeps) (non E. B. Wilson 1881, Arachn.!), E. Oates in: Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds v. 1 p. 68   ...   Schnabel stark gebogen, die Wurzelhälfte des Unterrandes des Oberschnabels deutlich ausgebogen, Endhälfte des Unterschnabels stark gewölbt.   ...   *) Nom. nov. — Der Name Scaeorhynchus wurde 1881 von Edmund B. Wilson (in: Bull. Mus. Harvard, v. 8 p. 241, 247) für eine Gattung der Pycnogonidae vergeben." (Hellmayr 1903).
Synon. Scaeorhynchus.

margaritae
● Margarita Nikandrovna Zilova (fl. 1897) common-law wife of Russian ornithologist Konstantin Davydof (Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Alectoris chukar sinaica).
● Margaret Kernochan Pulitzer née Leech (1893-1974) US author, historian, wife of publisher and sponsor Ralph Pulitzer (Batis).
● Margarethe Koenig née Westphal (1865-1943) German field-naturalist, collector, wife of zoologist Prof. A. Koenig (subsp. Chersophilus duponti).
● Gabrielle Maud Vassal née Candler (fl. 1919) collector in tropical China and Indochina (subsp. Cissa chinensis).
● Subsequent spelling by author of subspecific name Coeligena torquata margaretae Zimmer, 1948 (syn. Coeligena torquata margaretae).
● Margaret Hall Holt née Lander (b. 1894) wife of US ornithologist Ernest G. Holt (Conirostrum).
● Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela (subsp. Crypturellus erythropus, subsp. Megascops choliba, subsp. Phalaenopsis brasiliana, subsp. Rallus longirostris, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Hon. Margaret Mary Fraser (1881-1973) sister of explorer Simon Fraser 14th Lord Lovat (syn. Estrilda paludicola ochrogaster).
● Amelia ‘Daisy’ Woolworth Smith née Smith (b. 1858) US preparator, collector in the Neotropics, wife of naturalist Herbert Huntington Smith (Spanish name margarita for the daisy flower) (subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, subsp. Sporathraupis cyanocephala, subsp. Tangara flava).
● Margaret Fitzell Gilliard née Tifft (1918-2008) wife of US ornithologist E. Thomas Gilliard (subsp. Paradisornis rudolphi).
● Isla Santa Margarita, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Polioptila californica).
● Anne Louise Marguerite Dorst née Larpent (fl. 1956) wife of French ornithologist Jean Dorst (subsp. Psilopsiagon aurifrons).
● Marguerite Delacour (1860-1954) mother of French ornithologist Jean Delacour (Psittiparus).
● Margaret Boardman Conover (b. 1888) sister of US ornithologist Henry Boardman Conover (subsp. Zentrygon frenata).