Gray-cheeked Tit-Babbler

SCI Name:  Mixornis flavicollis
Protonym:  [Mixornis] flavicollis Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.217
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae / Mixornis
Taxonomy Code:  gyctib1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MIXORNIS
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Pin-striped Tit-babbler M. gularis rubicapilla) Gr. μιξις mixis  compound; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "*T. chloris; Iora chloris, Hodgson, M.S.*: probably Motacilla rubicapilla, Tickell, J.A.S. II. 576, though the description there applies equally to this and the preceding nearly allied species.   ...   * Mr. Hodgson has since proposed the subdivisional name Mixornis for this bird, and the preceding species [T. gularis] ranks with it" (Blyth 1842); "Mixornis, Mihi (μιξις, compound]   ...  Type M. chloris [Timalia and Iora chloris, XI, 794; closely allied to T. gularis, Horsfield]   ...   Shy and exclusively arboreal. Essentially linked to the two last [Erpornis, Stachyris] by its powerful bill and creeping feet, but leans towards Iora and Sylvian forms in the depression of the base of the bill" (Hodgson 1844); "Mixornis Blyth, 1842, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11, p. 794, footnote. Type, by original designation, Timalia chloris Blyth = Macronous gularis rubicapillus (Tickell)." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 318).

flavicolle / flavicollis / flavicollo
L. flavus  golden-yellow; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Yellow-throated Creeper” of Catesby 1731, “Parus carolinensis” of Brisson 1760, “Mésange grise à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-throated Warbler” of Latham 1783, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica dominica).
● ex “Yellow-necked Heron” of Latham 1787 (Ixobrychus).
● ex “Black-throated Bunting” of Pennant 1785 (syn. Spiza americana).
● ex “Yellow-necked Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-cheeked Tit-Babbler (Gray-cheeked)
SCI Name: Mixornis flavicollis flavicollis
flavicolle / flavicollis / flavicollo
L. flavus  golden-yellow; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Yellow-throated Creeper” of Catesby 1731, “Parus carolinensis” of Brisson 1760, “Mésange grise à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-throated Warbler” of Latham 1783, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica dominica).
● ex “Yellow-necked Heron” of Latham 1787 (Ixobrychus).
● ex “Black-throated Bunting” of Pennant 1785 (syn. Spiza americana).
● ex “Yellow-necked Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Gray-cheeked Tit-Babbler (Kangean)
SCI Name: Mixornis flavicollis prillwitzi
prillwitzi
Conrad Ernst August Prillwitz (1856-1922) German collector in Java 1897-1922 (subsp. Arachnothera longirostra, Mixornis, subsp. Pycnonotus simplex).