Archer’s Robin-Chat
Archer's Robin-Chat
Here the details of the Archer's Robin-Chat named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cossypha archeri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 13 p.9
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code: arrcha1
Type Locality: Ruwenzori.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1902
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COSSYPHA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Chorister Robin Chat C. dichroa) Gr. κοσσυφος kossuphos thrush; "III. FAM. MERULIDÆ. ... ****[Subfam.] Cossyphina. Cossypha.†—Timalia. ... † I take this opportunity of characterizing one of the many forms that enter into the present subdivision of the family, for the purpose of pointing out the mode by which the Thrushes gradually pass into the Warblers. COSSYPHA. Rostrum mediocre, subgracile, culmine leviter arcuato; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, longitudinalibus. Alæ mediocres, rotundatæ: remige 1ma brevissima, 5ta longissima, 4ta 3tia et 2da paulatim brevioribus; 4tae 5tae et 6tae pogoniis externis leviter prope medium emarginatis. Pedes subgracilis: tarsis scutellatis, paratarsiis integris. Cauda mediocris, rotundata. Typus genericus. Turdus vociferans. Swains." (Vigors 1825); "Cossypha Vigors, 1825, Zool. Journ., 2, p. 396. Type, by original designation, Turdus vociferans Swainson = Muscicapa dichroa Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 50).
Var. Cassypha, Cossipha, Gossypha.
Synon. Caffrornis, Hyloaedon, Marisca.
archeri
● Anthony L. Archer (b. 1933) British big-game hunter in Kenya (cf. “collected at Archer’s Post on the Ewaso Ng’iro River, Samburu District” (Cunningham-van Someren 1984)) (syn. Buphagus erythrorhynchus).
● Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer (1882-1964) British explorer, Gov. of British Somaliland 1919-1922, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan 1924-1926 (syn. Buteo augur, Dessonornis, subsp. Falco tinnunculus, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis griseoflava, Heteromirafra, subsp. Platalea leucorodia, subsp. Scleroptila gutturalis, subsp. Tachymarptis melba).
SUBSPECIES
Archer's Robin-Chat (Archer's)
SCI Name: Cossypha archeri archeri
archeri
● Anthony L. Archer (b. 1933) British big-game hunter in Kenya (cf. “collected at Archer’s Post on the Ewaso Ng’iro River, Samburu District” (Cunningham-van Someren 1984)) (syn. Buphagus erythrorhynchus).
● Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer (1882-1964) British explorer, Gov. of British Somaliland 1919-1922, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan 1924-1926 (syn. Buteo augur, Dessonornis, subsp. Falco tinnunculus, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis griseoflava, Heteromirafra, subsp. Platalea leucorodia, subsp. Scleroptila gutturalis, subsp. Tachymarptis melba).
Archer's Robin-Chat (Kabobo)
SCI Name: Cossypha archeri kimbutui
kimbutui
François Kimbutu (fl. 1950) African hunter and skinner for Alexandre Prigogine in the Congo (subsp. Dessonornis archeri).
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)