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LeNomenclatoriste said:
Why?
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Name: Alcippe
Author: Blyth
Date: 1844
OD ref: Blyth E. 1844. Appendix for Mr. Blyth report for December meeting, 1842. [Continued from vol. XII, p.1011.] J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13: 361-395.
Page: 384
Link: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40057211
OINS: [Alcippe cinerea ?], A. affinis, A. poiocephala, A. atriceps, [A. (?) sepiaria, A. (?) bicolor].
Type: Trichastoma affine Blyth 1842
Syn.? in use
Fixation by: subsequent designation
Fixation ref: Gray GR. 1844-49. The genera of birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London.
Page: [209]
Link: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52822670
OD of type ref: Blyth E. 1842. Report from the Curator. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11: 788-799.
Page: 795
Link: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40005165
Notes: The type (currently in Malacopteron Eyton 1839) was correctly identified by Oberholser 1922 https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26749120 , who proposed the necessary adjustments, but these were not followed. Gray's designation was claimed to be “invalid” because the designated species allegedly did not match Blyth's generic diagnosis, which is a rather undefendable argument. (Blyth's express inclusion of the species is part of his definition of the genus, hence it cannot contradict it.) Later on, the type was claimed to be Thimalia poiocephala Jerdon 1841 “by original designation” (Deignan, Paynter & Ripley 1964 in the PCL: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486586 ); this was repeated in H&M4. Dillon & Ripley 1996 (Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan) also claimed Thimalia poiocephala Jerdon 1841 as a type “by monotypy”. Senior homonym of Alcippe Hancock 1849 (Crustacea; https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18686837 ), Alcippe Gumppenberg 1887 (Lepidoptera; https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39662148 ).
Available: yes
Family: Pellorneidae

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mb1848 said:
Blyth looked at Alcippe genus again in 1847 listing some different species. Does this help, or change anything?
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124006#page/518/mode/1up .
https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=3578090 .
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No, Gray's designation is in a part of his Genera of birds which dates from 1846, thus before this. Anyway, Blyth retained affinis in the genus there and did not designate a type, thus even if it had been first, this would change nothing.
 
Malcolmia Blyth, 1855, seems available
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In the Ibis The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on Dr. Jer-
dons ' Birds of India.' By Edward Blyth, Blyth says "...Malacocercus malcolmi of India. This type I formerly denominated Malcolmia ; but the name is preoccupied in botany."
 
mb1848 said:
In the Ibis The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on Dr. Jer-
dons ' Birds of India.' By Edward Blyth, Blyth says "...Malacocercus malcolmi of India. This type I formerly denominated Malcolmia ; but the name is preoccupied in botany."
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Botany is not zoology. A homonym in zoology is not preoccupied by a homonym in botany and vice versa
 
LeNomenclatoriste said:
Malcolmia Blyth, 1855, seems available
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Malcolmia seems OK to me as well. (Assuming there's nothing earlier, of course.)

Name: Malcolmia
Author: Blyth 1855
Date: 1855
OD ref: Blyth E. 1855. Report of Curator, zoological department, for July, 1855. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 469-481.
Page: 478
Link: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40268776
OINS: Malcolmia albifrons (syn. Timalia malcolmi)
Type: Garrulus albifrons Gray 1835
Syn.? Timalia malcolmi Sykes 1832
Fixation by: original designation
Fixation ref: as OD
Page: as OD
Link: as OD
OD of type ref: Gray JE. 1833-1834. Illustrations of Indian zoology; chiefly selected from the collections of Major-General Hardwicke. Vol. II. A Richter and Co, London.
Page: [pl.36]
Link: https://archive.org/stream/IllustrationsOfIndianZoology2/Hardwicke2#page/n80/mode/1up/
Notes:
Available: yes
Family: Leiothrichidae
 
mb1848 said:
"Type: Garrulus albifrons Gray 1835
Syn.? Timalia malcolmi Sykes 1832"
Blyth thought that albifrons was a synonym of malcolmi.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123800#page/559/mode/1up .
Gray listed albifrons as a synonym of malcolmi.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118759#page/305/mode/1up .
The species name malcolmu has priority.
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Yes, I'm not saying otherwise.
I use the field "Syn?" to record the possible valid name of the type species. (Thus "Syn? means something like "Is it a synonym of something, and if yes, what?").
The type is Garrulus albifrons Gray 1835 (not Timalia malcolmi Sykes 1832) because this is what Blyth designated ("Type: M. albifrons") (perhaps he wanted to avoid the almost tautonymic "Malcolmia malcolmi"; whatever the reason, this is important because this means that if, at some point, it was realized that albifrons and malcolmi do not denote the same thing after all, the name would stay with albifrons.)
Garrulus albifrons Gray 1835 is currently treated as a synonym of Timalia malcolmi Sykes 1832 (which is in use, usually as Turdoides malcolmi or Argya malcolmi).
If the name of the type species had itself been in use, I would have noted it "in use" in this field.
 
Anyway, here are the genera I recognize (personal opinion, in alphabetical order) : Acanthoptila, Actinodura, Argya, Chrysominla, Cutia, Dryonastes, [New Genus] "Vassalia" for the delesserti clade, Garrulax, [New genus] "Cracticocincla" for the leucolophus clade, Grammatoptila, Heterophasia, [New Genus] "Hapalias" for H. auricularis, Ianthocincla, Kaznakowia (temporarily), Kupeornis, Laniellus, Leioptila, Leiothrix, Leucodioptron, Liocichla, [New Subgenus] "Daphoenocichla", Malacias, [New Genus] "Spodiocichla" for Garrulax cinereifrons, Malcolmia, Melanocichla, Mesia, Minla, Montecincla, Phyllanthus Pterocyclus, Pterorhinus, Sibia, Siva, Stactocichla, Strophocincla, Trochalopteron et Turdoides.

This is an overdose of genera, I know, as a free electron, I don't like following the established order.
 

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