Indochinese Blue Flycatcher

Indochinese Blue Flycatcher / Cyornis sumatrensis

Indochinese Blue Flycatcher

Here the details of the Indochinese Blue Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyornis sumatrensis
Protonym:  Siphia sumatrensis Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 4 p.442,451
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tibfly4
Type Locality:  Sumatra. Type of Malacca make, fide Robinson and Kinnear 1928, Novit. Zool., 34, p. 238.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1879
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. AddoecaOlcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.

sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia  < Sanskrit Samudra  sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).

SUBSPECIES

Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (indochina)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis indochina
indochina / indochinae / indochinense / indochinensis
Indochina.

Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (sumatrensis)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis sumatrensis
sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia  < Sanskrit Samudra  sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).

Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (lamprus)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis lamprus
lamprus
Gr. λαμπρος lampros  radiant, glittering, shining, brilliant, magnificent.