Blue-capped Cordonbleu
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
Here the details of the Blue-capped Cordonbleu named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Estrilda cyanocephala Auk 14 p.157 spdP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Uraeginthus
Taxonomy Code: blccor1
Type Locality: Useri River, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Author: Richmond
Publish Year: 1897
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.
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).
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)