Snowy-browed Nuthatch

SCI Name:  Sitta villosa
Protonym:  Sitta villosa Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 1 p.78 pl.5 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  snbnut1
Type Locality:  Chine au Nord de Pekin.
Author:  Verreaux, J
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch  < Gr. σιττη sittē  bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA.  Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta,  Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.

villosa / villosus
L. villosus  hairy  < villus  shaggy hair.
● “Hairy Wood-pecker  ...  the back is black, with a broad white stripe of hairy feathers, extending down the middle to the rump” (Catesby 1731); "59. PICUS.  ...  villosus.  16. P. dorso longitudinali subvilloso, rectricibus extimis totis albis. Kalm. it. 3. p. 43.  Picus varius medius quasi villosus. Catesb. car. I. p. 19. t. 19.  Picus varius virginianus. Briss. av. 4. p. 48.  Habitat in America septentrionali.  Mas occipitis fascia transversa rubra." (Linnaeus 1766)  (Leuconotopicus).

SUBSPECIES

Snowy-browed Nuthatch (villosa)
SCI Name: Sitta villosa villosa
villosa / villosus
L. villosus  hairy  < villus  shaggy hair.
● “Hairy Wood-pecker  ...  the back is black, with a broad white stripe of hairy feathers, extending down the middle to the rump” (Catesby 1731); "59. PICUS.  ...  villosus.  16. P. dorso longitudinali subvilloso, rectricibus extimis totis albis. Kalm. it. 3. p. 43.  Picus varius medius quasi villosus. Catesb. car. I. p. 19. t. 19.  Picus varius virginianus. Briss. av. 4. p. 48.  Habitat in America septentrionali.  Mas occipitis fascia transversa rubra." (Linnaeus 1766)  (Leuconotopicus).

Snowy-browed Nuthatch (bangsi)
SCI Name: Sitta villosa bangsi
bangsi
Outram Bangs (1863-1932) US zoologist, collector (syn. Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii, Amazilia rutila x Amazilia tzacatl, subsp. Amphispiza bilineata, syn. Automolus leucophthalmus, subsp. Buteogallus anthracinus, syn. Catharus aurantiirostris melpomene, subsp. Cuculus canorus, syn. Cyanoderma ruficeps davidi, syn. Emberiza godlewskii omissa, syn. Galerida deva, Grallaria, subsp. Halcyon coromanda, subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer, subsp. Henicorhina leucophrys, syn. Hydrobates castro, subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, syn. Loxia curvirostra himalayensis, subsp. Manacus manacus, syn. Mirafra cantillans, syn. Myiarchus tuberculifer nigricapillus, syn. Parus major nigriloris, subsp. Peucaea carpalis, subsp. Prinia crinigera, syn. Pterocles orientalis arenarius, subsp. Quiscalus niger, syn. Sheppardia sharpei, subsp. Sitta villosa, subsp. Sterna dougallii, subsp. Tachybaptus dominicus, subsp. Tangara gyrola, subsp. Xiphorhynchus triangularis).