Three-toed Parrotbill

SCI Name:  Cholornis paradoxus
Protonym:  Cholornis paradoxa Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 6 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sylviidae / Cholornis
Taxonomy Code:  thtpar1
Type Locality:  'les montagnes du Thibet chinois'' ; type specimens from Muping [= Paohing] , Hsikang, fide Verreaux, 1871.
Author:  Verreaux, J
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHOLORNIS
(Sylviidae; Ϯ Three-toed Parrotbill C. paradoxus) Gr. χωλος khōlos  defective; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "GENUS CHOLORNIS.  Paradoxornitheo simillimus: mandibula superiore minus sinuosa, magis apice truncata; digitus externus brevissimus; alæ breves; cauda elongata, graduata.   8. CHOLORNIS PARADOXA" (J. Verreaux 1870); "Cholornis J. Verreaux, 1870, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris], 6, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, Cholornis paradoxus J. Verreaux." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 432).
Var. Chlorornis.

paradoxus
Gr. παραδοξος paradoxos strange, incredible, extraordinary.
● “Avis inter Lagopodes et Otides ambigua, multisque momentis anomala et a norma solita aliena. Rostrum tenuis quam Tetraonibus ...Dorsum inter alas et ad caudam usque, ut in Otide, gryseo nigroque squamatum” (Pallas 1773) (Syrrhaptes).
● “It is not to the purpose to follow up the unfortunate series of new names given to Tephras olivaceus Ramsay, but it must be remarked that the use of the name Z. rendovae by Salvadori and many subsequent authors for the bird from Rendova, is incorrect ...it is evident that Zosterops rendovae is a new name for Tephras olivaceus Ramsay, and thus becomes the valid name for the species know known as Zosterops ugiensis (Ramsay), 1882” (Mees 1955) (subsp. Zosterops kulambangrae).

SUBSPECIES

Three-toed Parrotbill (taipaiensis)
SCI Name: Cholornis paradoxus taipaiensis
taipaiensis
Tai-pai, Shensi / Taibai, Shaanxi, China.

Three-toed Parrotbill (paradoxus)
SCI Name: Cholornis paradoxus paradoxus
paradoxus
Gr. παραδοξος paradoxos strange, incredible, extraordinary.
● “Avis inter Lagopodes et Otides ambigua, multisque momentis anomala et a norma solita aliena. Rostrum tenuis quam Tetraonibus ...Dorsum inter alas et ad caudam usque, ut in Otide, gryseo nigroque squamatum” (Pallas 1773) (Syrrhaptes).
● “It is not to the purpose to follow up the unfortunate series of new names given to Tephras olivaceus Ramsay, but it must be remarked that the use of the name Z. rendovae by Salvadori and many subsequent authors for the bird from Rendova, is incorrect ...it is evident that Zosterops rendovae is a new name for Tephras olivaceus Ramsay, and thus becomes the valid name for the species know known as Zosterops ugiensis (Ramsay), 1882” (Mees 1955) (subsp. Zosterops kulambangrae).