Rufous-breasted Bush-Robin

SCI Name:  Tarsiger hyperythrus
Protonym:  Ianthia hyperythra J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 16 p.132
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Tarsiger
Taxonomy Code:  rbbrob1
Type Locality:  Darjeeling.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TARSIGER
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Golden Bush Robin T. chrysaeus) Mod. L. tarsus  leg, shank  < Gr. ταρσος tarsos  flat of the foot; L. -ger  bearing  < gerere  to carry; "Luscinidæ.  ...  Tarsiger chrysæus, [drawing nos.] 408, 409." (Hodgson 1844); “Genus Tarsiger, mihi.  Bill equal to head, straight, subdepressed, feeble, gradually widening from the tip; the upper mandible more than half exceeded by the nareal fosse, and much overlaid by the soft frontal plumes; tip of bill obtuse, and nearly unarmed; gape rather wide and ciliated; wings submedial, round rather than acuminate, firm; fifth quill longest; 4-6 and 3-7 respectively equal; alars and caudals wedged and mucronate; tail medial, rounded; tarse very elevate, slender and smooth; toes ambulant, simple; laterals unequal, hinder rather large; nails large, slender, simple; hind largest.  Exclusively monticolous; dwells in low brushwood solitarily, and is much on the ground, feeding chiefly on small ground insects.   ...   Type, T. chrysæus, mihi” (Hodgson 1845); "Tarsiger Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 28, ex Hodgson, in Gray, 1844, Zool. Misc., p. 83, nom. nud. Type, by monotypy [= original designation], Tarsiger chrysaeus Hodgson." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 33). 
Synon. Dorisella, Ianthia, Nemura.

hyperythra / hyperythrus
● Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; ερυθρος eruthros  red.
● Gr. ὑπερυθρος huperuthros  reddish  < ὑπο hupo  somewhat; ερυθρος eruthros  red.