Chinese Blackbird

SCI Name:  Turdus mandarinus
Protonym:  T.[urdus] mandarinus Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p. 275
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  chibla1
Type Locality:  Asia or China [= Amoy to Shanghai; vide Swinhoe, 1860, Ibis, p. 56].
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
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).

mandarina / mandarinus
Mod. L. mandarinus  of China, Chinese  < Portuguese mandarim  senior official in the imperial Chinese bureaucracy  < Malay menteri  counsellor.

SUBSPECIES

Chinese Blackbird (sowerbyi)
SCI Name: Turdus mandarinus sowerbyi
sowerbii / sowerbyi
● John Lawrence Sowerby (?1875-1957) British collector, member of British South Africa Police, served during second Matabele war 1896-1897, Southern Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe) (subsp. Stactolaema whytii).
● Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) British naturalist, explorer, traveller in China and Mongolia (subsp. Eophona migratoria, syn. Erythrogenys gravivox, subsp. Turdus mandarinus).

Chinese Blackbird (mandarinus)
SCI Name: Turdus mandarinus mandarinus
mandarina / mandarinus
Mod. L. mandarinus  of China, Chinese  < Portuguese mandarim  senior official in the imperial Chinese bureaucracy  < Malay menteri  counsellor.