Blue-breasted Flycatcher

Here the details of the Blue-breasted Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyornis herioti
Protonym:  Cyornis herioti Ibis p.159
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code:  blbfly3
Type Locality:  neighborhood of Manila.
Author:  Wardlaw Ramsay
Publish Year:  1886
IUCN Status:  

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.

herioti
Frederick Maitland-Heriot (1852-1925) British collector in the Philippines 1884 (Cyornis).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-breasted Flycatcher (Blue-breasted)
SCI Name: Cyornis herioti herioti
herioti
Frederick Maitland-Heriot (1852-1925) British collector in the Philippines 1884 (Cyornis).

Blue-breasted Flycatcher (Rufous-breasted)
SCI Name: Cyornis herioti camarinensis
camarinensis
Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines.