Nicobar Jungle-Flycatcher

Nicobar Jungle-Flycatcher / Cyornis nicobaricus

Nicobar Jungle-Flycatcher

Here the details of the Nicobar Jungle-Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyornis nicobaricus
Protonym:  Rhinomyias nicobarica Proc.U.S.Natl. Mus. vol. XXV, No. 1288, (17 September 1902) p. 295-296
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  nicjuf1
Type Locality:  Pulo Kunyi, Great Nicobar.
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Publish Year:  1902
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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. AddoecaOlcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.

nicobarensis / nicobarica / nicobaricus / nicobariensis
Nicobar Is.
● “92. COLUMBA.  ...  nicobarica.  15. C. cauda alba, corpore nigro, remigibus cæruleis, dorso viridi-nitente, pennis colli elongatis.  Columba e nicombar. Alb. av. 3. p. 44. t. 47. 48.  Habitat in insula Nicombar prope Pegu indicum.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Caloenas).