Yellow-browed Tit / Sylviparus modestus
Yellow-browed Tit
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylviparus modestus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1835) (1835), Pt3 no.34 p.154
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paridae / Sylviparus
Taxonomy Code: yebtit3
Type Locality: Himalayas; restricted to Nepal by Baker, 1923, Hand-list Birds Indian Emp., p. 8.
Author: Burton, E
Publish Year: 1836
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SYLVIPARUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Yellow-browed Tit S. modestus) ) Portmanteau of genera Sylvia Scopoli, 1769, warbler, and Parus Linnaeus, 1758, tit; "SYLVIPARUS. Rostrum parvulum, brevissimum, compressum nisi ad basin; mandibulæ æquales, superior paululum ad apicem arcuata; nares plumis setaceis tectum. Pedes ut in genere Paro. Alæ longiores, fere ad extremam caudam extensæ, remige 1ma vera breviore, 2nda, 3tia, et 4ta æqualibus et longissimis, 5ta his paulo breviore, 6ta primam æquante. Cauda mediocris, æqualis. SYLVIPARUS MODESTUS. ... Hab. apud Montes Himalayenses. It is reluctantly proposed to institute a new genus in a family already sufficiently complicated; nevertheless, as this bird combines the characters of Sylvia, Regulus, and Parus in its wing, tail and bill, it is deemed necessary to make it the type of a genus of which more species will probably be discovered as our intercourse with the remote regions from whence it is derived becomes more extended." (Burton 1836); "Sylviparus Burton, 1836, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, p. 153. Type, by monotypy, Sylviparus modestus Burton." (Snow in Peters 1967, XII, 123).
Var. Sylviiparus.
● (syn. Setophaga Ϯ Northern Parula S. americana) "Une troisième subdivision assez nombreuse, celle des Sylvains-Mésanges ou Paroides (Sylvanæ Paroïdæ), que l'on pourrait encore appeler Sylvains suspenseurs, comprendra presque toutes ces Fauvettes de l'Amérique du Nord, à plumage en géneral vivement coloré et varié de jaune, de roux et de noir, que Buffon appelait figuiers, et qui, par leur bec en cône allongé, dans le genre de celui de la Mesange Remiz, leurs formes plus ramassées, et surtout leurs habitudes de s'accrocher aux branches et même aux troncs des arbres, semblent s'eloigner de nos Fauvettes proprement dites, et se rapprocher des Mesanges. Nous adopterons le nom générique de Sylvicola, que leur a donne M. Swainson, quoique d'après notre manière de les envisager, nous eussions preferé un nom qui eût exprimé leur double analogie, tel que Sylvi-parus, par exemple" (de La Fresnaye 1839) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz).
modesta / modestum / modestus
L. modestus plain, modest, unassuming < modus measure, standard.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-browed Tit (simlaensis)
SCI Name: Sylviparus modestus simlaensis
simlae / simlaensis
Simla (= Shimla), a famous hill-station of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Yellow-browed Tit (modestus)
SCI Name: Sylviparus modestus modestus
modesta / modestum / modestus
L. modestus plain, modest, unassuming < modus measure, standard.
Yellow-browed Tit (klossi)
SCI Name: Sylviparus modestus klossi
klossi / klossii
Cecil Boden Kloss (1877-1949) English zoologist, Director of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1921-1936 (subsp. Accipiter badius, subsp. Bubo coromandus, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, subsp. Cissa chinensis, subsp. Cyornis hainanus, subsp. Harpactes erythrocephalus, syn. Myophonus caeruleus eugenei, subsp. Pachycephala soror, subsp. Phylloscopus ogilviegranti, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, subsp. Prinia superciliaris, Pseudominla, subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster, subsp. Rallicula rubra, Schoeniparus, Spilornis, subsp. Sylviparus modestus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)