Timor Blue Flycatcher
Timor Blue Flycatcher
Here the details of the Timor Blue Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Muscicapa hyacinthina Pl.Col. livr.5 pl.30 fig.1,2,text
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code: tibfly2
Type Locality:
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris]. 1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson. Himalaya ... 2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female. Southern India and Malay countries. ... 3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574. ... Inhabits Central India.† ... † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 53), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 355).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.
hyacinthina / hyacinthinus
L. hyacinthinus hyacinthine, of the hyacinth < Gr. ὑακινθινος huakinthinos hyacinthine < ὑακινθος huakinthos hyacinth.
SUBSPECIES
Timor Blue Flycatcher (hyacinthinus)
SCI Name: Cyornis hyacinthinus hyacinthinus
hyacinthina / hyacinthinus
L. hyacinthinus hyacinthine, of the hyacinth < Gr. ὑακινθινος huakinthinos hyacinthine < ὑακινθος huakinthos hyacinth.
Timor Blue Flycatcher (kuehni)
SCI Name: Cyornis hyacinthinus kuehni
kuehni
Heinrich Kühn (1860-1906) German explorer, collector in the East Indies (syn. Aplonis minor, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Coracina novaehollandiae melanops, subsp. Cyornis hyacinthinus, subsp. Dicaeum celebicum, subsp. Dicrurus densus, syn. Eos rubra, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, subsp. Gerygone dorsalis, subsp. Hypotaenidia torquata, Myzomela, subsp. Pachycephala griseonota, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, subsp. Xanthotis polygrammus, Zosterops) (see audacis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)