Reed Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Paradoxornis heudei
Protonym:  Paradoxornis Heudei Compt.Rend. 74 p.1449
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Paradoxornis
Taxonomy Code:  reepar3
Type Locality:  Kiangsu.
Author:  David
Publish Year:  1872
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PARADOXORNIS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-breasted Parrotbill P. flavirostris) Gr. παραδοξος paradoxos  extraordinary; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; “He stated that one of them was especially curious as exhibiting a form of Insessorial Bird, not safely referrible to any known family; on which account he proposed to consider it as the type of a group of birds to be designated PARADOXORNIS.  Rostrum altitudine longitudinem superans, ad basin vibrissis instructum: mandibula superiore valde compressa; culmine acuto, valde arcuato; tomio edentulo, apicem versus valde incurvo, ad basin producto: mandibula inferiore ad bsain lata, robusta; tomio ematrginato.  Nares parvæ, rotundatæ, pone rostrum sitæ.  Alæ breves, rotundatæ: remigibus 4ta, 5ta, et 6ta longioribus.  Cauda mediocris, gradata.  Tarsi robusti, læves.  Pedes magni, subtus lati: digitis magnis; halluce ungueque postico maximis.  Ptilosis ampla, laxa.  The breadth of the under surfaces of the feet is so great as to indicate considerable powers of grasping.   PARADOXORNIS FLAVIROSTRIS.” (Gould 1836).
Synon. Anacrites, Bathyrynchus, Calamornis.

heudei
Pierre Marie Heude (1836-1902) French conchologist, missionary, collector in China (Paradoxornis).

SUBSPECIES

Reed Parrotbill (Northern)
SCI Name: Paradoxornis heudei polivanovi
polivanovi
Dr Vladimir Mikhailovich Polivanov (fl. 1974) Russian zoologist in the Russian Far East and Caucasus (subsp. Paradoxornis heudei).

Reed Parrotbill (Reed)
SCI Name: Paradoxornis heudei heudei
heudei
Pierre Marie Heude (1836-1902) French conchologist, missionary, collector in China (Paradoxornis).