Garrulax milnei milnei,a taxon little known in Chinese ornithology

As early as 1874,the French scientist Père A.David introduced to science a new bird species,Trochalopteron milnei,described as:"Ressemblant au T.formosum du Setchouan,mais ayant le dessus de la tête couleur de cannelle ou d’amadou,et la région parotique blanche"(David,1874).The bird skin that Père David collected,and so far deposited in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris,was from"Koaten of W Fo-kien",in the current Chinese romanization system,Koaten is spelt as Guadun and Fo-kien spelt as Fujian.Then,spelling of the specific name of the bird was given as"milni"by David(1875),David and Oustalet(1877),and La Touche(1899,1925–1930).The bird is now usually known as Garrulax milnei milnei.However,Collar and Robson(2007)resurrected the genus Trochalopteron,and this is also being supported by Luo et al.(2009)as well as by Dickinson and Christidis(2014),but Bird Life still uses Garrulax(Bird Life,2015).