Brown Tit-Babbler

SCI Name:  Macronus striaticeps
Protonym:  Macronus striaticeps Trans.Linn.Soc.London(2), 1 p.331
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae / Macronus
Taxonomy Code:  brtbab1
Type Locality:  Malamaui Islet, off Basilan, Philippine Islands.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MACRONUS
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Fluffy-backed Tit-babbler M. ptilosus) Gr. μακρος makros  long; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  finger-nail (alluding to the broad white plumes); "[Plate 150] Macronus ptilosus.   [Text] MACRONOUS, PTILOSUS, NOBIS    LONG FEATHERED MACRONOUS.   WHEN we first saw this bird we were inclined to consider it as a species of Timalia, having the peculiar form of the plumage developed to an extraordinary extent. The form of the bill, however, and of the rictus, is entirely different, and points out a fissirostral type.  ...  the most marked character, which we have endeavoured to express in the generic or sub-generic title we have provisionally applied, is in a series of plumes which spring from the centre of the back, and from the sides of the breast; these have the quill broad, and flat at the base, (and of a clear white colour,) where it is furnished with soft and downy webs, but which as they advance upon the shafts, become like fine and delicate hairy filaments, which hang over the rest of the plumage: all the other feathering of the bird is remarkably loose and unconnected, but without any rigidity."(Jardine & Selby 1835); "Macronous¹ Jardine and Selby, 1835, Illustr. Orn., text to pl. 150. Type, by monotypy, Macronous ptilosus Jardine and Selby.   ...   ¹ Spelling used by first revisor (Blyth, 1842, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11, p. 795). However, the plate is lettered Macronus and the editors would prefer to maintain this more frequently used spelling.—Eds." (Deignan and Mayr & Paynter in Peters 1964, X, 318).
Var. Macronous. 
Synon. Minodoria.

striaticeps
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; –ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

SUBSPECIES

Brown Tit-Babbler (mindanensis)
SCI Name: Macronus striaticeps mindanensis
mindanaensis / mindanaoensis / mindanense / mindanensis
Mindanao, Philippines (named after the Maguindanao, a Moro people and former sultanate of the southern Philippines).
● (Boddaert 1783) ex “Merle de Mindanao” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 627, fig. 1 (Copsychus).
● (J. Gmelin 1789) ex “Merle de Mindanao” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 627, fig. 1, and “Mindanao Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Copsychus mindanensis).
● ex “Coucou tacheté de Mindanao” of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Eudynamys scolopacea).

Brown Tit-Babbler (alcasidi)
SCI Name: Macronus striaticeps alcasidi
alcasidi
Dr Godofredo L. Alcasid (1909-1984) Filipino zoologist, Director of Philippine National Mus. (subsp. Macronus striaticeps).

Brown Tit-Babbler (striaticeps)
SCI Name: Macronus striaticeps striaticeps
striaticeps
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; –ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Brown Tit-Babbler (kettlewelli)
SCI Name: Macronus striaticeps kettlewelli
kettlewelli
Lt. Charles Thomas Kettlewell-Eyres (1859-1909) British Army, yachtsman, owner and captain of the steam yacht Marchesa, which cruised the Pacific 1882-1884 (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Macronus striaticeps).