Editing Common iora (section)

==Taxonomy==
In 1747 the English naturalist [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]] included an illustration and a description of the common iora in the second volume of his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. He used the English name "The Green Indian Fly-Catcher". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a specimen that had been sent from Bengal to the silk-pattern designer and naturalist [[Joseph Dandridge]] in London.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1747 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part II | page=79, Plate 79 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50240789 }}</ref> When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] updated his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' for the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]], he placed the common iora in the [[genus]] ''[[Motacilla]]''. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the [[binomial name]] ''Motacilla tiphia'' and cited Edwards' work.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=186 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727093 }}</ref> The common iora is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Aegithina]]'' that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist [[Louis Pierre Vieillot]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1816 | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self |  location=Paris | page = 44 | language=French| url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f50.item }}<!--BHL has a scan of an 1883 reprint - same pagination http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12830237 --></ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 October 2021 }}</ref> The genus name ''Aegithina'' is from [[Ancient Greek]] ''aigithos'' or ''aiginthos'', a mythical bird mentioned by [[Aristotle]] and other classical authors. The etymology of specific epithet ''tiphia'' is uncertain. It may be from the [[Ancient Greek]] ''tuphē'', ''tiara'', from [[Tiphys]] who in [[Greek mythology]] was the [[helmsman]] of the [[Argonauts]].<ref>{{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 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n033/mode/1up 33], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n386/mode/1up 386] }}</ref>

Eleven [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc/>
* ''A. t. multicolor'' ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin, JF]], 1789) – southwest India and Sri Lanka
* ''A. t. deignani'' [[Pat Hall|Hall, BP]], 1957 – south, east India and north, central Myanmar
* ''A. t. humei'' [[E. C. Stuart Baker|Baker, ECS]], 1922 – central peninsular India
* ''A. t. tiphia'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – north India to west Myanmar
* ''A. t. septentrionalis'' [[Walter Koelz|Koelz]], 1939 – northwest Himalayas
* ''A. t. philipi'' [[Émile Oustalet|Oustalet]], 1886 – south-central China, east Myanmar, north Thailand and north, central Indochina
* ''A. t. cambodiana'' Hall, BP, 1957 – southeast Thailand, Cambodia and south Vietnam
* ''A. t. horizoptera'' [[Harry C. Oberholser|Oberholser]], 1912 – southeast Myanmar and southwest Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands
* ''A. t. scapularis'' ([[Thomas Horsfield|Horsfield]], 1821) – Java and Bali
* ''A. t. viridis'' ([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1850) – central, south Borneo
* ''A. t. aequanimis'' [[Outram Bangs|Bangs]], 1922 – north Borneo and west Philippines