Yellow-rumped Thornbill

SCI Name:  Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Protonym:  Saxicola chrysorrhoa Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.189 AtlasOis. pl.10 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Acanthiza
Taxonomy Code:  yertho1
Type Locality:  New South Wales.
Author:  Quoy & Gaimard
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ACANTHIZA
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ Brown Thornbill A. pusilla) Gr. ακανθεων akantheōn  thorn-brake  < ακανθα akantha  thorn  < ακη akē  point; ζαω zaō  to inhabit, to live  < ζω zō  to live; "Genus ACANTHIZA *.  Rostrum gracile, breve, rectum, basi subdepressum, apice compressum, culmine apicem versus leviter arcuato; mandibula superiori subemarginata; naribus linearibus, longitudinalibus, supra membrana tectis, setis plumulisque partim opertis; rictu setis parce instructo.  Alæ subbreves, rotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda et tertia gradatim longioribus, quarta longissima, secunda et decima æqualibus.  Pedes graciles, acrotarsiis paratarsiisque integris.  Cauda mediocris, apice subrotundata.   This group is closely connected with that of Malurus. The construction of the wings and legs is the same, and their habits, as far as we can learn, are similar. But the soft, lengthened, and graduated tail, which gives a striking character to the typical species of Malurus, is wanting in the present group, in which the tail is short and rounded.   ...   As in all similar cases of groups thus approximating to each other, we fix our attention on the typical species chiefly of each, which in the present instance may be considered to be Malurus Lamberti and Acanthiza pusilla.   ...   Like the Reguli they appear to be the inhabitants of bushes and low scrubs.   1. NANA.   ...   2. REGULOIDES.   ...   3. FRONTALIS.   ...   4. PYRRHOPYGIA.   ...   5. PUSILLA.   ...   6. BUCHANANI.   ...   *Aκανθεων dumetum, and ζαω vivo." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827).  
Var. Ancathiza, Acanthisa.
Synon. Geobasileus, Milligania, Subacanthiza.

chrysorhoeus / chrysorrheum / chrysorrhoa / chrysorrhoea / chrysorrhoeus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ορρος orrhos  rump (cf. ῥοη rhoē  flowing  < ῥεω rheō  to flow).
● ex “Cudor” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 107, fig. 2  < French homophone cul d'or  golden-rump (syn. Pycnonotus aurigaster).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-rumped Thornbill (normantoni)
SCI Name: Acanthiza chrysorrhoa normantoni
normantoni / normantoniensis
Normanton, on the Norman River, north-western Queensland, Australia.

Yellow-rumped Thornbill (leighi)
SCI Name: Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leighi
leighi
Hon. Margaret Elizabeth Leigh (1849-1945) daughter of William Henry 2^nd Baron Leigh and wife of Victor Albert George Child-Villiers 7^th Earl of Jersey and 10^th Viscount Grandison (1845-1915) Gov. of New South Wales 1890-1893, Agent-Gen. for New South Wales 1903-1905 (subsp. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa).

Yellow-rumped Thornbill (leachi)
SCI Name: Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi
leachi / leachii
● Dr William Elford Leach (1790-1836) English zoologist, marine biologist (syn. Calyptorhynchus banksii, Dacelo, syn. Hydrobates leucorhous, Mackenziaena).
● Richard Howell Walker Leach (1841-1914) English collector in Tasmania 1863 (subsp. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa, subsp. Manorina melanocephala, syn. Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, syn. Pardalotus punctatus, subsp. Pezoporus wallicus).

Yellow-rumped Thornbill (chrysorrhoa)
SCI Name: Acanthiza chrysorrhoa chrysorrhoa
chrysorhoeus / chrysorrheum / chrysorrhoa / chrysorrhoea / chrysorrhoeus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ορρος orrhos  rump (cf. ῥοη rhoē  flowing  < ῥεω rheō  to flow).
● ex “Cudor” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 107, fig. 2  < French homophone cul d'or  golden-rump (syn. Pycnonotus aurigaster).