Hume's Treecreeper

SCI Name:  Certhia manipurensis
Protonym:  Certhia manipurensis Str.Feath. 10 p.151
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Certhiidae / Certhia
Taxonomy Code:  bnttre2
Type Locality:  Manipur.
Author:  Hume
Publish Year:  1881
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CERTHIA
(Certhiidae; Ϯ Eurasian Treecreeper C. familiaris) Gr. κερθιος kerthios small, tree-dwelling. insect-eating bird mentioned by Aristotle, perhaps the treecreeper Certhia but never properly identified. "59. CERTHIA.  Rostrum arcuatum, tenue, subtrigonum.  Lingua acuta." (Linnaeus 1758); "Genus CERTHIA.  Type by Linnean tautonymy and by subsequent designation of Gray (List Gen. Bds. 1st ed. 1840, p. 18): C. familiaris." (BOU 1915); "Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 118. Type, by tautonymy², Certhia familiaris Linnaeus.  ...  ² Int. Comm. Zool. Nomen., 1955, 1, Sec. C (C-8), pp. 89-112. Direction 17." (Greenway in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 150). Linnaeus's Certhia comprised five species (C. familiaris, C. pusilla, C. cærulea, C. cruentata, C. flaveola).  In nomenclature and generic combination the name is applied to a variety of thin- or curve-billed species, or those with creeper-like toes and claws.
Var. Cerithia, Cerethia, Cirthia, Certhius, Certhra, Corthia, Crethia.
Synon. Dendrobates.

certhia
Gr. κερθιος kerthios  small tree-dwelling insect-eating bird.
● "Pic grimpereau, BUFF. XIII. p. 122.  BRISS. Ornith. o. Picus certhia mihi  LINN. Gen. 59. o.  Climbing Grakle, LATH. birds. I. p. 467, II" (Boddaert 1783); ex “Picucule de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 621, and “Pic-grimpereau” of de Buffon 1770-1785: "nous avons cru devoir les nommer pic-grimpereaux, parce qu'ils sont la nuance entre le genre des pics & celui des grimpereaux; la première & la plus grande espèce, etant plus voisine des grimpereaux par son bec courbé, & la seconde étant au contraire plus voisine des pics par son bec droit. Toutes deux ont trois doigts en avant & un en arrière comme les grimpereaux, & en même temps les pennes de la queue roides & pointues comme les pics" (Dendrocolaptes).

manipurensis
Manipur, India.

SUBSPECIES

Hume's Treecreeper (manipurensis)
SCI Name: Certhia manipurensis manipurensis
manipurensis
Manipur, India.

Hume's Treecreeper (shanensis)
SCI Name: Certhia manipurensis shanensis
shanense / shanensis
Shan States, Burma / Shan State, Myanmar.

Hume's Treecreeper (meridionalis)
SCI Name: Certhia manipurensis meridionalis
meridionale / meridionalis
L. meridionalis  southern  < meridies  south.
● Cayenne; ex “Rufous-headed Falcon” of Latham 1787 (Heterospizias).
● South Island, New Zealand; ex “Southern brown Parrot” of Latham 1781 (Nestor).
● Erroneous TL. Bahamas (= Trinidad) (syn. Trogon violaceus).

Hume's Treecreeper (laotiana)
SCI Name: Certhia manipurensis laotiana
laotiana / laotianus / laotinus
Laos (which, historically, also included northern Thailand).