Pale-footed Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Urosphena pallidipes
Protonym:  Phylloscopus pallidipes J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 41 p.162
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Urosphena
Taxonomy Code:  pfbwar1
Type Locality:  Sikkim.
Author:  Blanford
Publish Year:  1872
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

UROSPHENA
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Asian Stubtail U. squameiceps) Gr. ουρα oura  tail; σφην sphēn, σφηνος sphēnos  wedge; "Mr. Brooks urges me to have a figure of this bird published, and to assign to it the characters of a new genus, as he considers that it does not belong to Tribura, Pnoepyga, Horornis, or any other known genus, though it has certain characters in common with them.  I think, therefore, that it would be as well to propose for it the generic name Urosphena, from its wedge-shaped tail, and to characterize it as follows:—  Bill at base exceedingly slender and much depressed.  Wing of unusual power for such a little bird.  Tail almost as in Pnoepyga, but somewhat more rounded.  Style of coloration scaly, as in Pnoepyga.  Legs and feet large, strong, and coloured as in Horornis.  Lower tail-coverts very long.  Mr. Brooks says, "I do not know of any genus in which this little bird can be placed: the scaly plumage separates it from Horornis, Neornis, and Tribura.  This, with its queer short tail, brings it near Pnoepyga; but the bill is as slender as in Troglodytes, or more so, and the wing is quite unlike that of Pnoepyga.  I wonder whether ten tail-feathers is the correct number; that is the number in my specimen, which appears to be perfect."  The synonymy of this bird will stand as follows:—  UROSPHENA SQUAMICEPS.  Tribura squamiceps, Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 1863, p. 292; Ibis, 1866, p. 397, et 1874, p. 155." (Swinhoe 1877); "Urosphena Swinhoe, 1877, Ibis, p. 204, pl. 4. Type, by monotypy, Tribura squameiceps Swinhoe." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 6).
Synon. Orthnocichla, Urophlexis.

pallidipes
L. pallidus  pale  < pallere  to be pale; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

SUBSPECIES

Pale-footed Bush Warbler (pallidipes)
SCI Name: Urosphena pallidipes pallidipes
pallidipes
L. pallidus  pale  < pallere  to be pale; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

Pale-footed Bush Warbler (laurentei)
SCI Name: Urosphena pallidipes laurentei
laurentei / laurentii
Ernest Paul Laurente (born Laurent) (1892-1968) RAF, consular official, Customs Officer in southern Yunnan, China, collector (Martin Schneider and Paul Scofield in litt.) (syn. Brachypteryx montana cruralis, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, syn. Elachura formosa (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.), subsp. Hemitesia pallidipes, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, syn. Psilopogon asiaticus davisoni).

Pale-footed Bush Warbler (osmastoni)
SCI Name: Urosphena pallidipes osmastoni
osmastoni
Bertram Beresford Osmaston (1868-1961) British colonial administrator, Chief Conservator Central Provinces, Imperial Forestry Service, India 1888-1923 (subsp. Hemitesia pallidipes, subsp. Pelargopsis capensis, subsp. Pericrocotus cinnamomeus).