Masked laughingthrush
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=BirdLife International |year=2016 |title=Garrulax perspicillatus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22715595A94460945 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22715595A94460945.en |access-date=18 August 2024}}
| image = Garrulax perspicillatus - Funny Black Face.jpg
| taxon = Pterorhinus perspicillatus
| authority = (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
| synonyms = Garrulax perspicillatus
}}
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The masked laughingthrush (Pterorhinus perspicillatus) is a species of laughingthrush found in China and Vietnam. It is often seen in small noisy flocks of seven. Its Chinese name {{transliteration|zh|qī zǐ-mèi}} ({{Lang-zh|t=七姊妹}} ) means 'seven brothers and sisters'.
Taxonomy
The masked laughingthrush was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus perspicillatus.{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1789 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 2 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=830 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2656325 }} The specific epithet perspicillatus is Modern Latin meaning "spectacled".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=299 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n299/mode/1up }} Gmelin based his description on "Le Merle de la Chine" that had been described in 1775 by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1775 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=3 | location=Paris | publisher=De l'Imprimerie Royale | pages=368–369 | chapter=Le Merle de la Chine | language=French | chapter-url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k10697127/f444.item }} A hand-coloured engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet was published to accompany Buffon's text.{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | chapter=Merle, da la Chine | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle | volume=7 | location=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | at=Plate 604 | chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35219033 }} The type locality is now restricted to Xiamen (formerly Amoy) in the province of Fujian.{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=350 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486539 }}
The masked laughingthrush was formerly placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of the laughingthrushes in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus that had been introduced by the English zoologist Robert Swinhoe in 1868.{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Gelang | first2=M. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Pasquet | first4=E. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | last6=Ericson | first6=P.G.P. | last7=Olsson | first7=U. | year=2018 | title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=47 | issue=4 | pages=428–440 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12296 | s2cid=51883434 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Laughingthrushes and allies | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/laughingthrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=18 January 2019 }} The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
References
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External links
- [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=6966 Masked laughingthrush videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
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Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
Category:Least concern biota of Asia
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