African Blue Flycatcher

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

SCI Name:  Elminia longicauda
Protonym:  Myiagra longicauda Nat.Libr. 21(Flycatchers) p.210 pl.25
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Elminia
Taxonomy Code:  afbfly1
Type Locality:  New Holland; error: Senegal, fide Hartlaub, 1857, Syst. Ornith. Westafrica''s, p. 93.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1838
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.

longicauda
L. longus  long; cauda  tail.
● ex “Merle à longue queue du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 220, and “Vert-doré” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Lamprotornis caudatus).
● ex “Petit Figuier à longue queue de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Long-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Orthotomus sutorius).
● ex “Plumet-blanc” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Pithys albifrons).
● ex “Perruche de Malac” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 887, “Grand Perruche à long brins” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Malacca Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (Psittacula).
● ex “Merle Tricolor à Longue Queue” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 114 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

African Blue Flycatcher (longicauda)
SCI Name: Elminia longicauda longicauda
longicauda
L. longus  long; cauda  tail.
● ex “Merle à longue queue du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 220, and “Vert-doré” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Lamprotornis caudatus).
● ex “Petit Figuier à longue queue de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Long-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Orthotomus sutorius).
● ex “Plumet-blanc” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Pithys albifrons).
● ex “Perruche de Malac” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 887, “Grand Perruche à long brins” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Malacca Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (Psittacula).
● ex “Merle Tricolor à Longue Queue” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 114 (unident.).

African Blue Flycatcher (teresita)
SCI Name: Elminia longicauda teresita
teresita
Teresita Garibaldi (1845-1903) daughter of Italian hero and patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi (subsp. Elminia longicauda).