Brown Prinia

SCI Name:  Prinia polychroa
Protonym:  Malurus polychrous Pl.Col. livr.78 pl.466 fig.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Prinia
Taxonomy Code:  bropri1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1828
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRINIA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-winged Prinia P. familiaris) Javanese name Prinya for the Bar-winged Prinia; "Gen. 33. PRINIA.  Rostrum mediocre, rectum, basi latiusculum, ultra nares sensim attenuatum, apice validiusculo.  Maxilla basi recta, apice levissime arcuata: culmine inter nares carinato, deinde rotundato, extremitate obsolete emarginato.  Mandibula recta, ultra medium levissime sursum inclinata.  Nares basales, magnæ, in fovea oblonga antice angustiore positæ, membrana tectæ, parte inferiore rima longitudinale apertæ.  Alæ rotundatæ. Remiges: 1 abrupte, 2 et 3 gradatim breviores, reliquæ subæquales, 3—7 externe tenuiter emarginatæ.  Cauda elongata cuneata.  Pedes elongati.  Digitus medius longiusculus cum exteriore basi coalitus.  Hallux validiusculus medio antico major validior.   This genus is allied to the former [Pomatorhinus], but it differs in the comparative straightness of the bill and its more gradual tapering to the point; it is also destitute of the horny covering of the nares. It holds an immediate place between Pomatorhinus and Nectarinia. In the situation of the nares it agrees with the latter, but the aperture is much larger and of a different form. The elevation of the tarsi constitutes a peculiar character.    Spec. 1. Prinia familiaris.   ...   Prinya Javanis." (Horsfield 1821); "Prinia Horsfield, 1821, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, p. 165. Type, by monotypy, Prinia familiaris Horsfield." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 128).   
Var. Primia, Prinea.   
Synon. Blanfordius, Burnesia, Daseocharis, Decurus, Drymoica, Drymoipus, Dybowskia, Franklinia, Heliolais, Herpystera, Suya, Urorhipis.

prinia
"ORTOTOME PRINIE.   ORTHOTOMUS PRINIA.  TEMM.   C'EST ici l'espèce que M. Horsfield indique, dans son catalogue des oiseaux de Java, sous le nom de Prinia familiaris, et dont il publie une figure, peu soignée pour ce qui concerne la forme du bec, dans ces Illustrations de Java; c'est aussi la Prinya des Malais." (Temminck 1836) (subsp. Prinia familiaris).

polychroa / polychrous
Gr. πολυχροος polukhroos  variegated  < πολυς polus  much; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos   complexion (cf. πολυχρους polukhrous  manifold).

SUBSPECIES

Brown Prinia (bangsi)
SCI Name: Prinia polychroa bangsi
bangsi
Outram Bangs (1863-1932) US zoologist, collector (syn. Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii, Amazilia rutila x Amazilia tzacatl, subsp. Amphispiza bilineata, syn. Automolus leucophthalmus, subsp. Buteogallus anthracinus, syn. Catharus aurantiirostris melpomene, subsp. Cuculus canorus, syn. Cyanoderma ruficeps davidi, syn. Emberiza godlewskii omissa, syn. Galerida deva, Grallaria, subsp. Halcyon coromanda, subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer, subsp. Henicorhina leucophrys, syn. Hydrobates castro, subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, syn. Loxia curvirostra himalayensis, subsp. Manacus manacus, syn. Mirafra cantillans, syn. Myiarchus tuberculifer nigricapillus, syn. Parus major nigriloris, subsp. Peucaea carpalis, subsp. Prinia crinigera, syn. Pterocles orientalis arenarius, subsp. Quiscalus niger, syn. Sheppardia sharpei, subsp. Sitta villosa, subsp. Sterna dougallii, subsp. Tachybaptus dominicus, subsp. Tangara gyrola, subsp. Xiphorhynchus triangularis).

Brown Prinia (cooki)
SCI Name: Prinia polychroa cooki
cooki / cookii
● John Pemberton Cook (1865-1924) British tea planter in India, forestry officer in Burma, coffee-estate owner in Kenya, big-game hunter, field-ornithologist (Apus, syn. Laniarius ruficeps rufinuchalis, Prinia).
● Capt. James Cook (1728-1779) Royal Navy, hydrographer, explorer and circumnavigator 1768-1771, 1772-1775, 1776-1779 (syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, subsp. Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, Pterodroma, syn. Pterodroma leucoptera).
● Capt. Samuel Edward Cook (1787-1856) British geologist, naturalist, collector (Cyanopica).

Brown Prinia (rocki)
SCI Name: Prinia polychroa rocki
rocki
Dr Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884-1962) Austrian/US botanist, ornithologist, ethnologist, explorer in China 1924-1932, 1946-1949 (syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus bondi, subsp. Ithaginis cruentus, Prinia, subsp. Sinosuthora conspicillata, subsp. Spelaeornis troglodytoides).

Brown Prinia (polychroa)
SCI Name: Prinia polychroa polychroa
polychroa / polychrous
Gr. πολυχροος polukhroos  variegated  < πολυς polus  much; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos   complexion (cf. πολυχρους polukhrous  manifold).