Blue-headed Pitta / Hydrornis baudii
WBN 
Blue-headed Pitta
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Protonym: Pitta baudii Verh.Nat.Gesch.[Temminck] Zool. Aves p.10,15 pl.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code: blhpit1
Type Locality: South Borneo.
Author: Müller & Schlegel
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro- water- < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.
baudii
Jean Chrétien Baron Baud (1789-1859) Gov.-Gen. of the Dutch East Indies 1833-1836 (Hydrornis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
