Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler

SCI Name:  Megapomatorhinus gravivox
Protonym:  Pomatorhinus gravivox Ann.Sci.Nat.Zool.(5), Tome XVIII, Article n° 5 p. 2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae / Megapomatorhinus
Taxonomy Code:  bksscb1
Type Locality:  Shensi; types from southern Shensi, fide David, 1874, ibid., ser. 5, 19, art. 9, p. 2.
Author:  David
Publish Year:  1873
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Megapomatorhinus
(syn. Erythrogenys; Ϯ Large Scimitar-babbler E. hypoleucos) Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; genus Pomatorhinus Horsfield, 1821, scimitar-babbler; "Megapomatorhinus ([Pomatorhinus]) hypoleucos, erythrocnemis, erythrogenys, swinhoei)   ...   Megapomatorhinus.— Among the genus names used in the past for the group/members of the group now newly separated from Pomatorhinus based on molecular-genetic markers, none is available according to the Code (ICZN 1999): Orthorhinus Blyth 1844: 124 is preoccupied by Orthorhinus Schönherr 1825, Coleoptera; Erythrogenys E. C. S. Baker 1930, is preoccupied by Erythrogenys Brandt 1841, itself a nomen emendatum of Gould's Erythrogonys. Hodgson's (1836, Asiatic Researches vol. 20: p. 180) use of the name Erythrogenys is without a proper genus description and the original description in the paper refers to a new species only; thus also this name is not available. We therefore formally establish here Megapomatorhinus gen. nov., diagnosed by its general appearance and proportions like Pomatorhinus babblers but generally larger, and in adult birds a curved bill roughly as long as the head, upperparts olive brown to brown, white underparts gradually becoming rusty or brown toward the vent, on breast and/or on flanks striped/dotted light to dark brown/umber, white supercilium lacking or, if present, thin and not reaching distally in front of the eyes, sexes alike; the type species is Orthorhinus hypoleucos Blyth 1844.  ...  The name acknowledges the similarity to species of Pomatorhinus, but also the large, heavy-bodied, and large-billed nature of species in the named genus." (Moyle et al. 2012); "Recently introduced name Megapomatorhinus is a synonym of Erythrogenys, although latter name was coined accidentally." (del Hoyo & Collar 2016).

gravivox
L. gravis  disagreeable; vox, vocis  voice.

SUBSPECIES

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (odicus)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox odicus
odica / odicus
L. odicus of song, musical < Gr. ωδικος ōdikos musical, musician < ωδη ōdē song.

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (decarlei)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox decarlei
decarlei
Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) British naturalist, explorer, traveller in China and Mongolia (subsp. Erythrogenys gravivox).

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (dedekensi)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox dedekensi
dedekensi
Père Constant Pierre Joseph de Deken (d. 1896) Belgian missionary to China 1881-1889 and the Congo 1892-1896, explorer in Turkistan, Tibet and Indochina 1889-1890 (subsp. Erythrogenys gravivox).

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (gravivox)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox gravivox
gravivox
L. gravis  disagreeable; vox, vocis  voice.

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (sowerbyi)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox sowerbyi
sowerbii / sowerbyi
● John Lawrence Sowerby (?1875-1957) British collector, member of British South Africa Police, served during second Matabele war 1896-1897, Southern Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe) (subsp. Stactolaema whytii).
● Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) British naturalist, explorer, traveller in China and Mongolia (subsp. Eophona migratoria, syn. Erythrogenys gravivox, subsp. Turdus mandarinus).

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler (cowensae)
SCI Name: Megapomatorhinus gravivox cowensae
cowensae
Alice Muriel Sowerby née Cowens (fl. 1954) third wife of explorer Arthur de Carle Sowerby (subsp. Erythrogenys gravivox).