The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Rupisitta
(Sittidae; syn. Sitta † Eastern Rock Nuthatch S. tephronota dresseri) L. rupes, rupis rock < rumpere to shatter; genus Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, nuthatch; "SITTA, Rupisitta subgen. nov. ... these birds, differing from the S. europaea group by a generally duller and paler colouring, greyish instead of whitish centres of lower tail-coverts and the absence of dark chestnut colouring on the flanks, can be separated as a subgeneric group "Rupisitta"" (Buturlin 1907) (Laurent Raty in litt.); "Rupisitta Buturlin, 1907, Izvestiya Kavkazskago Muzeya, III (1), pp. 49, 64. Type, by original designation, Sitta dresseri Zarudny and Buturlin, 1906." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Rupicitta.
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