Red-billed Leiothrix

SCI Name:  Leiothrix lutea
Protonym:  Sylvia (lutea) Del.Flor.Faun.Insubr. 2 p.96
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Leiothrix
Taxonomy Code:  reblei
Type Locality:  China, ex Sonnerat ; restricted to mountains of Anhwei, by Stresemann, 1923, Journ. f. Orn., 71, p. 364.
Author:  Scopoli
Publish Year:  1786
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LEIOTHRIX
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Red-billed Leiothrix L. lutea) Gr. λειος leios  smooth, polished; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos  hair; "Genus, LEIOTHRIX.  Bill short, much compressed, the culmen gradually curved, notched.  Nostrils large, membranaceous; aperture linear, lateral.  Wings short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, deeply forked.  Type.—Parus furcatus, TEMM. Pl. Col.  India." (Swainson 1832); "Leiothrix Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), pp. 233, 490. Type, by original designation, Parus furcatus Temminck = Sylvia lutea Scopoli." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 381).   
Var. Leioptrix.   
Synon. Bahila, Calipyga, Fringilloparus, Furcuria, Mesia, Philacalyx.

lutea
L. luteus  saffron-yellow  < lutum  saffron, yellow dye (cf. Late Med. L. lutea or luteus  bird mentioned by Turner 1544, which he associated with the Yellowhammer).
● ex “Mésange de Nanquin” of Sonnerat 1782 (Leiothrix).
● ex “Guêpier jaune de la côte de Coromandel” of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Merops viridis).
● ex “Luteous Flycatcher” (= ☼) of Latham 1783 ("Habitat in insula Otaheitee ...vocatur Oomamao" (Forster in Lichtenstein 1844) (syn. Pomarea nigra).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Red-billed Leiothrix (kumaiensis)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea kumaiensis
kumaiensis
Kumai, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Red-billed Leiothrix (calipyga)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea calipyga
calipyga
Gr. καλλιπυγος kallipugos  with beautiful rump  < καλος kalos  beautiful; -πυγος -pugos  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Red-billed Leiothrix (luteola)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea luteola
luteola
L. luteolus  yellowish  < luteus  saffron-yellow  < lutum  saffron (cf. Late Med. L. luteola  bird mentioned by Turner 1544, which he associated with the Siskin, but which was questionably linked with the Willow Warbler by Ray 1713).
● ex “Nectarinia luteola” Lichtenstein MS (subsp. Coereba flaveola).
● "109.  MOTACILLA Luteola.  ...  Chryso-bronchites albicilla montanus Tungusicus, vel Chryso-phaeo-bronchites albicilla, Messerschmid. ornith. MS. VI. 1138. 176.   Gilt throat Warbler, Latham. syn. IV. p. 459. n. 61." (Pallas 1831) (syn. Ficedula albicilla).

Red-billed Leiothrix (yunnanensis)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea yunnanensis
yunnanense / yunnanensis
Yunnan Province, China.

Red-billed Leiothrix (kwangtungensis)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea kwangtungensis
kwangtungensis
Kwangtung Province (= Guangdong), southern China.

Red-billed Leiothrix (lutea)
SCI Name: Leiothrix lutea lutea
lutea
L. luteus  saffron-yellow  < lutum  saffron, yellow dye (cf. Late Med. L. lutea or luteus  bird mentioned by Turner 1544, which he associated with the Yellowhammer).
● ex “Mésange de Nanquin” of Sonnerat 1782 (Leiothrix).
● ex “Guêpier jaune de la côte de Coromandel” of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Merops viridis).
● ex “Luteous Flycatcher” (= ☼) of Latham 1783 ("Habitat in insula Otaheitee ...vocatur Oomamao" (Forster in Lichtenstein 1844) (syn. Pomarea nigra).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758 (unident.).