Pied Shrike-Babbler

SCI Name:  Pteruthius flaviscapis
Protonym:  Allotrius flaviscapis Pl.Col. livr.99 pl.589 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Vireonidae / Pteruthius
Taxonomy Code:  wbsbab2
Type Locality:  Java and Sumatra ; restricted to Java.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTERUTHIUS
(Vireonidae; Ϯ White-browed Shrike-babbler P. aeralatus validirostris) Gr. πτερον pteron  wing; ερυθαινω eruthainō  to dye red  < ερυθραινω eruthrainō  to paint red  < ερυθρος eruthros  red; "26. Genus, PTERUTHIUS*.   ...   Bill short, compressed, thick; the tip shrike-like, hooked and deeply notched; culmen considerably arched; gonys ascending.  Nostrils basal, the aperture ovate or round.  Rictus slightly bristled, wide.  Wings very short, rounded.  Tail short, broad, rounded; the tips very obtuse.  Tarsi smooth, pale.   Type.—Lanius erythropterus, GOULD'S Century.  Nepaul.   ...   *Th. πτερον ala, et ερυθιαω sum ruber." (Swainson 1832); "Pteruthius Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), p. 491. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Lanius erythropterus Gould, i.e., Vigors = Pteruthius flaviscapis validirostris Koelz." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 385). This genus was traditionally placed in the Timaliidae, hence the substantive name.
Var. Pterutius, Pterythrius, Ptererythrius.
Synon. Aenopogon, Allotrius, Hilarocichla.

flaviscapis
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; scapus  shaft (i.e. feather); "ALLOTRIE AILE JAUNE.  ... sur les dernières pennes secondaires un long miroir jaune-orpin et les pennes caudales terminées de cette couleur" (Temminck 1835) (Pteruthius).