Rufous-breasted Accentor

SCI Name:  Prunella strophiata
Protonym:  A.(ccentor) strophiatus J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.959
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Prunellidae / Prunella
Taxonomy Code:  rubacc1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRUNELLA
(Prunellidae; Ϯ Dunnock P. modularis) German Braunelle  Dunnock  < dim. braun  brown (cf. Med. L. burneta  hedge-sparrow), from the rufous-brown upperparts of the familiar and homely Dunnock; "Braunelle.  ...  Herr Hallen hat ihm mit Recht den Namen des braunen Fliegenstechers gegeben" (Günther 1772); "MOUCHET, Prunella, Gessner.  Motacilla, Linn. Gm.  Sylvia, Lath.  Bec fin, droit, subulé, aigu, à bords courbés en dedans; mandibules égales; la supérieure un peu inclinée et entaillée à la pointe. — Ailes courtes, à penne bâtarde; la première remige plus courte que la cinquième; la troisième la plus longue.  Esp. Fauvette de haie, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Prunella Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Fauvette de haie" Buffon = Motacilla modularis Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 3).
Synon. Accentor, Aprunella, Braunella, Laiscopus, Rhododendroeca, Spermolegus, Tharrhaleus.

strophiata / strophiatus
Mod. L. strophiatus  breast-banded  < L. strophium  breast-band  < Gr. στροφιον strophion  breast-band  < dim. στροφος strophos  girdle  < στρεφω strephō  to twist.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-breasted Accentor (jerdoni)
SCI Name: Prunella strophiata jerdoni
jerdoni
Surgeon-Maj. Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811-1872) British Army in India 1836-1870, field ornithologist, collector (subsp. Anthus similis, Aviceda, subsp. Charadrius dubius, Chloropsis, subsp. Cyornis tickelliae, syn. Dryocopus javensis feddeni, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti (ex Amadina pectoralis Blyth ex Jerdon MS, 1844), syn. Machlolophus xanthogenys aplonotus, subsp. Minla ignotincta, syn. Otus bakkamoena, syn. Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (ex Xanclostomus viridirostris Jerdon, 1840), subsp. Phylloscopus xanthoschistos, syn. Prinia sylvatica, subsp. Prunella strophiata,  syn. Rimator malacoptilus, Saxicola, syn. Sterna acuticauda, subsp. Sylvia crassirostris, syn. Timalia pileata bengalensis, syn. Timalia pileata intermedia, syn. Treron phoenicopterus chlorigaster, Trochalopteron).

Rufous-breasted Accentor (strophiata)
SCI Name: Prunella strophiata strophiata
strophiata / strophiatus
Mod. L. strophiatus  breast-banded  < L. strophium  breast-band  < Gr. στροφιον strophion  breast-band  < dim. στροφος strophos  girdle  < στρεφω strephō  to twist.