Schneider’s Pitta / Hydrornis schneideri

Schneider\'s Pitta / Hydrornis schneideri

Schneider's Pitta

SCI Name:  Hydrornis schneideri
Protonym:  Pitta schneideri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 25 p.9
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  schpit1
Type Locality:  Batak Mountains, upper Deli, North Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1909
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DEFINITIONS

HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-   < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).   
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.

schneideri
Gustav Schneider (1867-1958) Swiss zoologist, collector in the East Indies 1888, 1897-1899 (Hydrornis).