Blue-capped Cordonbleu

Blue-capped Cordonbleu / Uraeginthus cyanocephalus

Blue-capped Cordonbleu

Here the details of the Blue-capped Cordonbleu named bird below:

SCI Name:  Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
Protonym:  Estrilda cyanocephala Auk 14 p.157 spdP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blccor1
Type Locality:  Useri River, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  

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 ουραSchwanz 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. BengalisMariposa.

cyanocephalus
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

Cyanocephalus
(Corvidae; syn. Gymnorhinus Pinyon Jay G. cyanocephalus) Specific name Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus zu Wied, 1841; "di recente due nuove specie di Uccelli dell' America settentrionale, Zonotrichia comata, Wied, nei FRINGILLINI, e Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Wied, nei GARRULINI, l'ultima delle quali costituisce un genere a sè, per cui mi veggo costretto a proporre il nome di Cyanocephalus come generico, quello datogli dal fondatore trovandosi già impiegato" (Bonaparte 1842) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Cyanocephalus Bonaparte, Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vert., p. 17, 1842—type, by monotypy, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Wied." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 9).