Fulvous Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Suthora fulvifrons
Protonym:  T[emnoris]. fulvifrons Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt13 no.146 p.31
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Suthora
Taxonomy Code:  fulpar1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SUTHORA
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-throated Parrotbill S. nipalensis) Nepalese name Suthora  < Sugathora  parrotbill, for the Black-throated Parrotbill (see Temnoris); "By Erythrocephalus I pass, however, to a new subgeneric (?) type, too marked to be confounded with Parus; and which I shall denominate  Suthora, from the native name, which is a contraction of Sugathora, quasi Psitticirostrum.  Genus Parus.  Subgenus Suthora nobis.  Bill in the highest degree short, stout, and solid; exceedingly compressed throughout and truncated; as high at the base as long, with plane sides and obtuse ridges, the latter of which are greatly convexed from above and below in all their length: mandibles equal: tomiæ free and blunt: points squared.  ...  New species and type. Suthora Nipalensis nobis" (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Sutoria, Sutora.
Synon. Hemirhynchus, Temnoris.

fulvifrons
L. fulvus  tawny; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.

SUBSPECIES

Fulvous Parrotbill (fulvifrons)
SCI Name: Suthora fulvifrons fulvifrons
fulvifrons
L. fulvus  tawny; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.

Fulvous Parrotbill (chayulensis)
SCI Name: Suthora fulvifrons chayulensis
chayulensis
Chayul River, south-eastern Tibet.

Fulvous Parrotbill (albifacies)
SCI Name: Suthora fulvifrons albifacies
albifacies
L. albus  white; facies  countenance, appearance.

Fulvous Parrotbill (cyanophrys)
SCI Name: Suthora fulvifrons cyanophrys
cyanophrys
Gr. κυανοφρυς kuanophrus, κυανοφρυος kuanophruos  dark-browed  < κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.