Campina Thrush

SCI Name:  Turdus arthuri
Protonym:  Planesticus arthuri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 33 p. 131
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  bkbthr3
Type Locality:  Abary River, British Guiana.
Author:  Chubb, C
Publish Year:  1914
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TURDUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Mistle Thrush T. viscivorus) L. turdus  thrush; "95. TURDUS.  Rostrum tereti-cultratum, maxilla superiore apice deflexo.  Nares nudæ, superne membranula semitectæ.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 168. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 27), Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 177). Linnaeus's Turdus comprised sixteen species (T. viscivorus, T. pilaris, T. iliacus, T. musicus, T. Canorus, T. rufus, T. polyglottos, T. Orpheus, T. plumbeus, T. crinitus, T. roseus, T. Merula, T. torquatus, T. solitarius, T. arundinaceus, T. virens).   
Var. Turus, Trudus, Turtus, Curdus.     
Synon. Afrocichla, Arceuthornis, Cichlherminia, Cichloides, Cichloselys, Copsichus, Copsicus, Cossyphopsis, Galeoscoptes, Haplocichla, Hodoiporus, Iliacus, Ixocossyphus, Lamprophonus, Melizocincla, Meridiocichla, Merula, Merulissima, Mimocichla, Mimokitta, Nesocichla, Peliocichla, Petrocincla, Planesticus, Platycichla, Semimerula, Thoracocincla, Turdela, Turdicus.

turdus
L. turdus  thrush.
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 < French Grive thrush (syn. Erythropygia leucophrys).
● "89. Loxia Turdus F.  ...  Habitat in insula australi Novae Zeeelandiae, simillima Turdo, statura, colore, pedibus.  Corpus magnitudine Turdi viscivori, supra fuscum." (Forster 1844) (syn. Turnagra capensis).

arthuri
● Arthur Philip Penard (1880-1932) Dutch ornithologist (born in Suriname), collector (syn. Columbina talpacoti, syn. Sporophila schistacea longipennis).
● Revd. F. Arthur Buxton (1851-1881) English collector (subsp. Falco rupicoloides).
● Arthur Thomas Goodson (1873-1931) British ornithologist, assistant at Tring Mus. 1893-1931 (subsp. Ornorectes cristatus, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis).
● Arthur Frederick Vavasour McConnell (1903-1961) son of English collector F. V. McConnell (Turdus).