Rufous-bellied Niltava

SCI Name:  Niltava sundara
Protonym:  Niltava Sundara Ind.Rev. 1 p.650
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Niltava
Taxonomy Code:  rubnil1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

NILTAVA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Rufous-bellied Niltava N. sundara) Nepalese name Niltau for the Rufous-bellied Niltava; "Genus Niltava nobis.  Niltau of Nepal.   ...   Habits, forest-haunting, arboreal and terrestrial, but chiefly the former, exploring foliage.  Food, various sorts of soft and hard, perfect and imperfect, insects.  Bugs, fire-flies, tiny coleoptera, caterpillars, ants, pulpy berries, and hard seeds, the latter chiefly in winter.  Solitary.  Never seize on wing.  Habitat central region of the hills.   1st species and type. Niltava Sundara nobis." (Hodgson 1837) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz).
Var. Miltava.
Synon. Bainopus, Chaitaris, Microbainopus.

sundara
Hindi sundar beautiful (Niltava).

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-bellied Niltava (whistleri)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara whistleri
whistleri
Hugh Whistler (1889-1943) Indian Police in the Punjab 1909-1932, naturalist, collector (subsp. Anthus pratensis, subsp. Cettia brunnifrons, subsp. Garrulax albogularis, syn. Leptocoma zeylonica flaviventris, subsp. Niltava sundara, subsp. Periparus rubidiventris, Phylloscopus, subsp. Pycnonotus jocosus, syn. Sitta himalayensis, subsp. Tarsiger chrysaeus).

Rufous-bellied Niltava (sundara)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara sundara
sundara
Hindi sundar beautiful (Niltava).

Rufous-bellied Niltava (denotata)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara denotata
denotata
L. denotatus  marked out, pointed out  < denotare  to designate.