Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch

SCI Name:  Sitta cinnamoventris
Protonym:  Sitta cinnamoventris J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal Vol. 11, Part I, N° 125 p. 459 (in text)
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  chbnut3
Type Locality:  Darjeeling.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch  < Gr. σιττη sittē  bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA.  Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta,  Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.

cinnamoventris
L. cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon; venter, ventris  belly.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (almorae)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris almorae
almorae
Almora, Kumaon (= Uttaranchal), India.

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (koelzi)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris koelzi
koelzi
Dr Walter Norman Koelz (1895-1989) US zoologist, botanist, anthropologist, collector in Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Iran (subsp. Aethopyga nipalensis, syn. Dendrocopos mahrattensis, subsp. Sitta cinnamoventris).

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (tonkinensis)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris tonkinensis
tonkinensis
Tonkin Protectorate, French Indochina / Tong-king or Dong-king, Vietnam.

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (cinnamoventris)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris cinnamoventris
cinnamoventris
L. cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon; venter, ventris  belly.