Pale-billed Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris
Protonym:  Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 46 p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Chleuasicus
Taxonomy Code:  blbpar3
Type Locality:  Sadiya, Assam.
Author:  Godwin-Austen
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLEUASICUS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Pale-billed Parrotbill C. atrosuperciliaris oatesi) Gr. χλευασια khleuasia  mockery  < χλευαζω khleuazō  to scoff; "Chleuasicus, nobis, n. g.  Nearly allied to Suthora, Hodgson (Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 32, and J.A.S. XII, 449), from which it is distinguished by the considerably larger proportionate size of the legs, and by the rather larger and decidedly broader bill, the outline of which (as seen laterally) is still more tumid and anomalous-looking. Rest as in the other genera of the group.   5. Chl. ruficeps, nobis.  ...   From Darjeeling." (Blyth 1845); "Chleuasicus Blyth, 1845. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 14, p. 578. Type, by monotypy, Chleuasicus ruficeps Blyth [1845, nec Paradoxornis ruficeps Blyth, 1842] [= Suthora oatesi Sharpe]" (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 431).
Var. Chlenasicus.

atrosuperciliaris
L. ater black; Mod. L. superciliaris eyebrowed < L. supercilium eyebrow.

SUBSPECIES

Pale-billed Parrotbill (oatesi)
SCI Name: Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris oatesi
oatesi / oatesii
● Frank Oates (1840-1875) British naturalist, collector, explorer in Central America 1871-1872, and southern Africa 1873-1875 (one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls) (syn. Agricola pallidus murinus, syn. Melaenornis pammelaina).
● Eugene William Oates (1845-1911) English civil servant in India, naturalist (syn. Anser fabalis, subsp. Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris, subsp. Garrulus bispecularis, Hydrornis, subsp. Lophura leucomelanos, Niltava, syn. Siva cyanouroptera sordida, Spelaeornis).

Pale-billed Parrotbill (atrosuperciliaris)
SCI Name: Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris atrosuperciliaris
atrosuperciliaris
L. ater black; Mod. L. superciliaris eyebrowed < L. supercilium eyebrow.