Cinereous Tit in Vietnam

Fire-capped tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps)
once considered to be a kinglet but is today treated as a tit.


The fire-capped tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps) is a bird species assigned to the tit family Paridae.


The bird breeds in the temperate forest in the Himalayas, China, Myanmar. This species winters migrating to lower altitudes and/or further south.


Paridae: New Latin, from Latin Parus, type genus + -idae.
parus or paru: Latin for tit or chickadee.


Cephalopyrus scientific name is a combination of two Ancient Greek words:
 Kephale (κεφαλή): Meaning "head".
 Purrhos (πυρρός): Meaning "flame-colored", "red", or "orange" (derived from pyr, meaning "fire").


The specific epithet flammiceps is a compound word derived from Latin roots
 Flammi-: From the Latin noun flamma, meaning "flame".
 -ceps: From the Latin noun caput (stem: capit-), meaning "head".