Red-tailed Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron milnei
Protonym:  Trochalopteron Milnei Ann.Sci.Nat.Zool.(5), 19 art.9 p.4
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  retlau1
Type Locality:  western Fukien.
Author:  David
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHALOPTERON
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Scaly Laughingthrush T. subunicolor) Gr. τροχαλος trokhalos  round, bowed; πτερον pteron  wing; "* In a list of specimens now on their way from Mr. Hodgson, I find three species mentioned, by the names leucopophlus (Quære leucolophos), erythropterus, and subunicolor; this last, with setafer and others, constituting Mr. Hodgson's division Trochalopteron, the propriety of adopting which name will depend on whether Mr. Swainson's Crateropus Reinwardii be considered admissable into the group, in which case it must bear the appellation Crateropus.  The specimens adverted to have since arrived, but Tr. leucopophlus (?) and erythropterus are not among them; and of Tr. subunicolor, a nestling specimen only is sent, of a species nearly allied to Tr. erythrocephalus, chrysopterus, and affinis, especially to the latter, but having a shorter and thicker bill than in that bird." (Blyth 1843); "Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 952, footnote. Type, by subsequent designation (Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. Inida, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 30), Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 348).
Var. Trochalopterum.
Synon. Galeropis, Montecincla, Pterocyclus, Strophocincla.

milnei
Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French zoologist (Trochalopteron).

SUBSPECIES

Red-tailed Laughingthrush (sharpei)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron milnei sharpei
sharpei
Dr Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) British ornithologist at BMNH 1872-1909, founder member of BOC 1892 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aegithalos bonvaloti, subsp. Anthoscopus sylviella, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, subsp. Caprimulgus tristigma, syn. Ceyx erithaca, syn. Chrysococcyx cupreus, subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Columba delegorguei, syn. Coracias naevius, subsp. Dactylortyx thoracicus, subsp. Dicrurus ludwigii, syn. Edolisoma incertum, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis saturatior, Euchrepomis, subsp. Eulabeornis castaneoventris, syn. Euschistospiza dybowskii, syn. Hypotaenidia philippensis, Lalage, syn. Laterallus spilonotus, syn. Lophura nycthemera lineata, Macronyx, subsp. Melanospiza bicolor, subsp. Meliphaga aruensis, syn. Merops pusillus cyanostictus, Monticola, syn. Muscicapa boehmi, syn. Myzomela melanocephala, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis, syn. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Phyllastrephus strepitans, syn. Picumnus albosquamatus guttifer, Picus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, syn. Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa, Sheppardia, subsp. Sicalis uropigyalis, Smithornis, syn. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Sporophila morelleti, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, subsp. Telacanthura ussheri, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Trochalopteron milnei, Turdoides, syn. Zosterops atrifrons) (see sharpii).

Red-tailed Laughingthrush (vitryi)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron milnei vitryi
vitryi
Paul Vitry (d. 1944) French colonial administrator in Indochina (subsp. Trochalopteron milnei).

Red-tailed Laughingthrush (sinianum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron milnei sinianum
sini / sinianum / sinianus
Prof. S. S. Sin (b. 1891-fl. 1975) Chinese botanist, collector (syn. Arborophila gingica, subsp. Minla ignotincta, subsp. Psilopogon faber, subsp. Trochalopteron milnei).

Red-tailed Laughingthrush (milnei)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron milnei milnei
milnei
Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French zoologist (Trochalopteron).