Crested Tit-Warbler

SCI Name:  Leptopoecile elegans
Protonym:  Leptopoecile elegans Zap.Imp.Akad.Nauk 55 p.77
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Aegithalidae / Leptopoecile
Taxonomy Code:  crtwar1
Type Locality:  upper Huang Ho near Lake Koko Nor (= Ch''ing-hai Hu), northeastern Tsinghai.
Author:  Przevalski
Publish Year:  1887
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LEPTOPOECILE
(Aegithalidae; Ϯ White-browed Tit-warbler L. sophiae) Gr. λεπτος leptos  delicate, slender; genus Poecile Kaup, 1829, tit; "177. Leptopoecile Sophiae nob." (Severtzov 1873) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Leptopoecile Severtsov, 1873, Izvestiia Imp. Obshchestva Liubitelei Estest. Antrop. Etnogr., Moscow, 8, pt. 2 (1872), pp. 66, 135. Type, by monotypy, Leptopoecile sophiae Severtsov." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 292-293).
Var. Leptopoecila.
Synon. Lophobasileus, Stoliczkana.

elegans
L. elegans, elegantis  elegant, fine  < elegere probably an early form of eligere   to select.
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524 (Celeus).
● ex “Bucco maynanensis” of Brisson 1760, “Barbu des Maynas” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 330, “Beau Tamatia” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Beautiful Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Eubucco versicolor).
● ex “Perdix martineta” of de Azara 1802-1805 (Eudromia).
● ex “Tangara de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 114, fig. 1 (syn. Euphonia chlorotica).
● ex “Beautiful Lory” of Latham 1781, ?and “Pennantian Parrot” of Latham 1787 (Platycercus).
● ex “Kink de la Chine” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 617 (syn. Sturnia sinensis).