Dusky Crested-Flycatcher
Dusky Crested-Flycatcher
Here the details of the Dusky Crested-Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Terpsiphone nigromitrata J.Orn. 22 p.110
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Elminia
Taxonomy Code: ducfly1
Type Locality: Cameroon.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1874
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELMINIA
(Stenostiridae; Ϯ African Blue-flycatcher E. longicauda) St Georges d’Elmina, a port on the Dutch Gold Coast (= Ghana); "Subf. 111. MYIAGRINÆ. ... 106. Elminia, Bp. ... Elminia, Bp., est établi pour l'espèce bleue, Myiagra longicauda, Sw., Flycatchers, t. 25, dont Hartlaub fait bien à tort une Muscipeta." (Bonaparte 1854); "Elminia Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, 38, p. 652 (nomen nudum on p. 388). Type, by original designation, Myiagra longicauda Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 467).
Synon. Erannornis.
nigromitrata / nigromitratus
L. niger black; mitratus crowned < mitra head-dress, turban < Gr. μιτρα mitra head-band, head-dress.
SUBSPECIES
Dusky Crested-Flycatcher (colstoni)
SCI Name: Elminia nigromitrata colstoni
colstoni
Peter R. Colston (b. 1935) English ornithologist at BMNH 1960-1995, collector in Australia and tropical Africa (subsp. Elminia nigromitrata, subsp. Puffinus lherminieri, subsp. Tychaedon leucosticta).
Dusky Crested-Flycatcher (nigromitrata)
SCI Name: Elminia nigromitrata nigromitrata
nigromitrata / nigromitratus
L. niger black; mitratus crowned < mitra head-dress, turban < Gr. μιτρα mitra head-band, head-dress.
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)