Spot-breasted Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Paradoxornis guttaticollis
Protonym:  Paradoxornis guttaticollis Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 7 p.8,14
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Paradoxornis
Taxonomy Code:  spbpar1
Type Locality:  'Setchuan-Moupin''; type specimen from western Szechwan, fide David, 1877, in David and Oustalet, Oiseaux Chine, p. 204
Author:  David
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PARADOXORNIS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Black-breasted Parrotbill P. flavirostris) Gr. παραδοξος paradoxos  extraordinary; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; “He stated that one of them was especially curious as exhibiting a form of Insessorial Bird, not safely referrible to any known family; on which account he proposed to consider it as the type of a group of birds to be designated PARADOXORNIS.  Rostrum altitudine longitudinem superans, ad basin vibrissis instructum: mandibula superiore valde compressa; culmine acuto, valde arcuato; tomio edentulo, apicem versus valde incurvo, ad basin producto: mandibula inferiore ad bsain lata, robusta; tomio ematrginato.  Nares parvæ, rotundatæ, pone rostrum sitæ.  Alæ breves, rotundatæ: remigibus 4ta, 5ta, et 6ta longioribus.  Cauda mediocris, gradata.  Tarsi robusti, læves.  Pedes magni, subtus lati: digitis magnis; halluce ungueque postico maximis.  Ptilosis ampla, laxa.  The breadth of the under surfaces of the feet is so great as to indicate considerable powers of grasping.   PARADOXORNIS FLAVIROSTRIS.” (Gould 1836).
Synon. Anacrites, Bathyrynchus, Calamornis.

guttaticollis
L. guttatus spotted  < gutta  drop, spot; Mod. L. -collis -throated, -necked < L. collum neck.