Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Here the details of the Red-cheeked Cordonbleu named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Fringilla bengalus Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.323
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Uraeginthus
Taxonomy Code: reccor
Type Locality: Bengal [emended to Senegal by Hartlaub, 1857, Syst. Ornith. Westaf rika, p. 145] .
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1766
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
URAEGINTHUS
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu U. bengalus) Gr. ουρα oura tail; αιγινθος aiginthos unknown bird, perhaps a finch; "Gen. URAEGINTHUS nov. gen. **) Granat-Astrild. 841. 1. U. phoenicotis Nob. — Fringilla bengalus (!) Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 32. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 920. No. 32. — Mareposa Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 5. — Fringilla bengalus Vieill. Enc. méth. p. 987. No. 122. — Estrelda phoenicotis Sws. B. W. Afr. II. p. 192. tab. 14. Estrelda benghala Gray Gen. Birds No. 4. — Fringilla angolensis Lin.? ... 842. 2. U. granatinus Nob. — Fringilla granatina Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 11. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 906. No. 11. — id. Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 17. 18. — Estrelda granatina Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 75. No. 4. ... **) Von ουρα, ἡ Schwanz und αιγινθος nom. prop. — Alle Körpertheile stärker entwickelt als in Habropyga; der Schwanz sehr lang und sehr stufig; die ersten Handschwingen verengt." (Cabanis 1853); "Uraeginthus Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 171. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 76), Fringilla bengalus Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1968, XIV, 331).
Var. Uraegnathus.
Synon. Bengalis, Mariposa.
bengalus
Erroneous TL. Bengal (= Senegal); ex “Bengali”of Brisson 1760 (in the mistaken belief that the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu came from Bengal) (Uraeginthus).
SUBSPECIES
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (bengalus)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus
bengalus
Erroneous TL. Bengal (= Senegal); ex “Bengali”of Brisson 1760 (in the mistaken belief that the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu came from Bengal) (Uraeginthus).
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (brunneigularis)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus brunneigularis
brunneigularis
Mod. L. brunneus brown < Med. L. brunius brown; gularis throated < L. gula throat.
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (ugogensis)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus ugogensis
ugogensis / ugogoensis
Ugogo District, central German East Africa / Tanzania.
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (katangae)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus katangae
katanga / katangae / katangensis
Katanga, Belgian Congo / DR Congo.
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)