Elliot's Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron elliotii
Protonym:  Trochalopteron elliotii Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 6 p.36
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  elllau1
Type Locality:  'les montagnes du Thibet chinois''; types from western Szechwan, fide Verreaux, 1871.
Author:  Verreaux, J
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHALOPTERON
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Scaly Laughingthrush T. subunicolor) Gr. τροχαλος trokhalos  round, bowed; πτερον pteron  wing; "* In a list of specimens now on their way from Mr. Hodgson, I find three species mentioned, by the names leucopophlus (Quære leucolophos), erythropterus, and subunicolor; this last, with setafer and others, constituting Mr. Hodgson's division Trochalopteron, the propriety of adopting which name will depend on whether Mr. Swainson's Crateropus Reinwardii be considered admissable into the group, in which case it must bear the appellation Crateropus.  The specimens adverted to have since arrived, but Tr. leucopophlus (?) and erythropterus are not among them; and of Tr. subunicolor, a nestling specimen only is sent, of a species nearly allied to Tr. erythrocephalus, chrysopterus, and affinis, especially to the latter, but having a shorter and thicker bill than in that bird." (Blyth 1843); "Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 952, footnote. Type, by subsequent designation (Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. Inida, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 30), Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 348).
Var. Trochalopterum.
Synon. Galeropis, Montecincla, Pterocyclus, Strophocincla.

elliotii
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (Dendropicos, Hydrornis, Trochalopteron (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.)).
● Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887) Scottish civil servant in India, archaeologist, collector (syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus).

SUBSPECIES

Elliot's Laughingthrush (prjevalskii)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron elliotii prjevalskii
prjevalskii / prjewalskii
Gen. Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888) Russian Army, explorer, naturalist in Central Asia (subsp. Trochalopteron elliotii).

Elliot's Laughingthrush (elliotii)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron elliotii elliotii
elliotii
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (Dendropicos, Hydrornis, Trochalopteron (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.)).
● Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887) Scottish civil servant in India, archaeologist, collector (syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus).