Gray Shrikethrush

SCI Name:  Colluricincla harmonica
Protonym:  Turdus harmonicus Suppl.ind.orn. p.xli
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pachycephalidae / Colluricincla
Taxonomy Code:  grysht1
Type Locality:  Sydney, New South Wales.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COLLURICINCLA
(Pachycephalidae; Ϯ Grey Shrikethrush C. harmonica) Gr. κολλυριων kolluriōn  thrush-sized bird mentioned by Aristotle and Hesychius, not further identified, but in ornithology considered to be a shrike (cf. genus Collurio Kaup,1829, shrike); Mod. L. cinclus  thrush  < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos  unidentified waterside bird; "Genus. COLLURICINCLA*.  Rostrum forte, sub-elongatum, compressum, rectum, culmine apicem versus gradatim arcuato: mandibula inferiori prope apicem fortiter emarginata: naribus ovalibus subobliquis, membrano partim clausis, setis plumulisque obtectis: rictu setis parce instructis.  Alæ mediocres rotundatæ: remigibus, prima brevi, tertia quarta quinta et sexta fere æqualibus longissimis, septima breviori, secunda et octava paulo brevioribus æqualibus; tertiæ ad sextam  inclusam pogoniis externis in medio paulatim latioribus.  Pedes mediocres, subfortes; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratarsiis integris; digitis mediocribus, medio longiori, halluce forti, hujus ungue subelongato forti.  Cauda subelongata, æqualis.    *Kολλυριων lanius, and κιγκλος turdus.    This group, which by its straight and rather lengthened bill appears to come into the subfamily of Thamnophilina among the Shrikes, may probably be considered the representative in Australia of the South American Thamnophili and the African Malaconoti.  From both those genera it differs in its entirely even tail; in its wings being comparatively longer, although rounded as in those genera; and in the paratarsia being entire instead of being furnished with either large but distant, or small but numerous, scales.  We have been enabled to ascertain nothing of the habits of the group: but its general appearance points out the situation we at present assign it; while at the same time it has also some general resemblance to the neighbouring family of the Thrushes.  The present subfamily, it is to be observed, is that which connects the Laniadæ with the last-mentioned family Merulidæ: and this approaching conformity to the Thrushes in the birds which compose the extreme and connecting group of the Shrikes is therefore to be expected.  We have assigned the genus a name indicative of these approaching affinities.   1. CINEREA." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Colluricincla Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 213. Type, by monotypy, Colluricincla cinerea = Turdus harmonicus Latham." (Mayr in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 36).
Var. Colluriocincla, Collyriocincla, Collyriocichla (Mod. L. cichla  thrush  < Gr. κιχλη kikhlē  thrush).
Synon. Alphacincla, Bowyeria, Caleya, Collurisoma, Conigravea, Myiolestes, Myiophila, Pnigocichla, Umbrixos.

harmonica / harmonicus
L. harmonicus  harmonious  < Gr. ἁρμονικος harmonikos  musical  < ἁρμονια harmonia  music.
● ex “Harmonic Thrush” of Latham 1787 (Colluricincla).

SUBSPECIES

Gray Shrikethrush (tachycrypta)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica tachycrypta
tachycrypta
Gr. ταχυς takhus fast; κρυπτω kruptō to hide.

Gray Shrikethrush (brunnea)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica brunnea
brunnea
Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown.

Gray Shrikethrush (superciliosa)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica superciliosa
superciliosa / superciliosum / superciliosus
L. superciliosus  supercilious, haughty, eye-browed  < supercilium  eyebrow.
● ex “Supercilious Duck” of Latham 1785 (Anas).
● ex “Little Green and Orange-coloured Kingfisher” of Edwards 1758 (syn. Chloroceryle aenea).
● ex “Gorge-jaune de Saint-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 686, fig. 1 (syn. Dendroica dominica).
● ex “Rousseau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 66 (Lanius).
● ex “Apiaster madagascariensis” or “Guespier de Madagascar” of Brisson 1760 (Merops).
● ex “Yellow-browed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Phylloscopus humei).
● ex “Supercilious Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Gray Shrikethrush (harmonica)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica harmonica
harmonica / harmonicus
L. harmonicus  harmonious  < Gr. ἁρμονικος harmonikos  musical  < ἁρμονια harmonia  music.
● ex “Harmonic Thrush” of Latham 1787 (Colluricincla).

Gray Shrikethrush (strigata)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica strigata
strigata / strigatus
L. strigatus  furrowed  < strix, strigis  furrow, groove (cf. striga  witch, hag  < strix, strigis  screech-owl).

Gray Shrikethrush (rufiventris)
SCI Name: Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris
rufiventer / rufiventra / rufiventre / rufiventris
Mod. L. rufiventris  red-bellied  < L. rufus  ruddy, rufous; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Pepoazá vientre roxizo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 205, and “Pepoaza à ventre rougeâtre” of Vieillot 1819 (Neoxolmis).
● ex “Grignet” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 126 (syn. Parisoma subcaeruleum).
● ex “Traquet à Cul Roux” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 188, fig. 2 (syn. Saxicoloides fulicatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 572, fig. 3, and “Rufous-vented Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “Velvet-headed Flycatcher” of Latham 1823 (Terpsiphone).