Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher
Here the details of the Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cyornis poliogenys Str.Feath. 8 p.469
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code: pacblf1
Type Locality: Salbaree, Sikkim terai.
Author: Brooks, WE
Publish Year: 1880
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.
poliogene / poliogenis / poliogenys
Gr. πολιος polios grey; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos cheek, chin, jaw.
SUBSPECIES
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (poliogenys)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys poliogenys
poliogene / poliogenis / poliogenys
Gr. πολιος polios grey; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos cheek, chin, jaw.
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (cachariensis)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys cachariensis
cacharensis / cachariensis
Cachar District, Assam, India.
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (laurentei)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys laurentei
laurentei / laurentii
Ernest Paul Laurente (born Laurent) (1892-1968) RAF, consular official, Customs Officer in southern Yunnan, China, collector (Martin Schneider and Paul Scofield in litt.) (syn. Brachypteryx montana cruralis, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, syn. Elachura formosa (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.), subsp. Hemitesia pallidipes, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, syn. Psilopogon asiaticus davisoni).
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (vernayi)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys vernayi
vernayi / verneyi
Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877-1960) English/US antiquarian, collector, sponsor, Trustee of AMNH (subsp. Alauda gulgula, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Gymnobucco, subsp. Leiothrix argentauris, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti, subsp. Rhipidura albogularis, subsp. Tephrodornis virgatus).
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)