Silver-eared Laughingthrush

SCI Name:  Trochalopteron melanostigma
Protonym:  G[arrulax]. melanostigma J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal Vol. 24, N° 3 p. 268
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Trochalopteron
Taxonomy Code:  sielau1
Type Locality:  Mulayit Taung [lat. 16° ir N., long. 98° 32'' E.], Lower Burma.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHALOPTERON
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Scaly Laughingthrush T. subunicolor) Gr. τροχαλος trokhalos  round, bowed; πτερον pteron  wing; "* In a list of specimens now on their way from Mr. Hodgson, I find three species mentioned, by the names leucopophlus (Quære leucolophos), erythropterus, and subunicolor; this last, with setafer and others, constituting Mr. Hodgson's division Trochalopteron, the propriety of adopting which name will depend on whether Mr. Swainson's Crateropus Reinwardii be considered admissable into the group, in which case it must bear the appellation Crateropus.  The specimens adverted to have since arrived, but Tr. leucopophlus (?) and erythropterus are not among them; and of Tr. subunicolor, a nestling specimen only is sent, of a species nearly allied to Tr. erythrocephalus, chrysopterus, and affinis, especially to the latter, but having a shorter and thicker bill than in that bird." (Blyth 1843); "Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 952, footnote. Type, by subsequent designation (Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. Inida, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 30), Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 348).
Var. Trochalopterum.
Synon. Galeropis, Montecincla, Pterocyclus, Strophocincla.

melanostigma
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; στιγμα stigma, στιγματος stigmatos  spot, mark  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

SUBSPECIES

Silver-eared Laughingthrush (connectens)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron melanostigma connectens
connectans / connectens
L. connectens  joined, connected, united  < connectere  to unite.

Silver-eared Laughingthrush (subconnectens)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron melanostigma subconnectens
subconnectens
L. sub  near to; subsp. name Trochalopterum erythrocephalum connectans Delacour, 1929 (subsp. Trochalopteron melanostigma).

Silver-eared Laughingthrush (schistaceum)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron melanostigma schistaceum
schistaceum / schistaceus
Late L. schistaceus  slate-grey  < schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split.

Silver-eared Laughingthrush (melanostigma)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron melanostigma melanostigma
melanostigma
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; στιγμα stigma, στιγματος stigmatos  spot, mark  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

Silver-eared Laughingthrush (ramsayi)
SCI Name: Trochalopteron melanostigma ramsayi
ramsayi
● Col. Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921) British Army in India and Burma 1872-1882, President of BOU 1913-1918 (Actinodura, syn. Cyornis banyumas lemprieri, Picoides, subsp. Psilopogon franklinii, subsp. Trochalopteron melanostigma).
● Dr Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916) Australian zoologist, Curator of Australian Mus., Sydney 1874-1894 (syn. Burhinus grallarius, subsp. Ceyx pusillus, syn. Daphoeonositta chrysoptera, subsp. Lonchura castaneothorax (ex Donacola nigriceps Ramsay, 1877), subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, syn. Petroica goodenovii, syn. Ramsayornis modestus (ex Gliciphila subfasciata Ramsay, 1868), syn. Todiramphus sanctus, syn. Zosterops lateralis vegetus, syn. Zosterops rendovae).