Brown Parrotbill / Cholornis unicolor
WBN 
Brown Parrotbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: H[eteromorpha]. unicolor J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.448
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Cholornis
Taxonomy Code: bropar1
Type Locality: northern Nepal.
Author: Hodgson
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHOLORNIS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Three-toed Parrotbill C. paradoxus) Gr. χωλος khōlos defective; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "GENUS CHOLORNIS. Paradoxornitheo simillimus: mandibula superiore minus sinuosa, magis apice truncata; digitus externus brevissimus; alæ breves; cauda elongata, graduata. 8. CHOLORNIS PARADOXA" (J. Verreaux 1870); "Cholornis J. Verreaux, 1870, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris], 6, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, Cholornis paradoxus J. Verreaux." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 432).
Var. Chlorornis.
unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris plain, uniform, of one colour < uni- single- < unus one; color, coloris colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).
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)
