Black-fronted Bushshrike
Black-fronted Bushshrike
Here the details of the Black-fronted Bushshrike named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Laniarius nigrifrons Orn.Monatsb. 4 p.95
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Telophorus
Taxonomy Code: blfbus1
Type Locality: Marangu, Kilimanjaro.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1896
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TELOPHORUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Bokmakierie T. zeylonus) No etymology given. This name may reflect the colorful plumage of the Bokmakierie (Gr. τελος telos perfect; -φορος
-phoros bearing < φορεω phoreō to carry). Swainson subsequently used Telophonus (Gr. τελος telos perfect; φωνη phōnē voice), given in allusion to the unusual duetting song of this bush-shrike; "Genus, TELOPHORUS. Rostrum sub-elongatum, sed capite brevius; culmine gradatim arcuato; vibrissæ mastacales paucæ, debiles. Pedes validi; tarsi elevati; digiti laterales æquales; ungues graciles, acutissimi. Alæ rotundatæ. Cauda gradata. Colores vividi. Type.— Telophorus collaris, SWAINS. La Backbakiri, LE VAILL. Ois. de l'Afr., ii., pl. 67." (Swainson 1832); "Telophorus Swainson, 1831, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., pt. 2, p. 481. Type, by monotypy, Telophorus collaris Swainson = Turdus zeylonus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 333).
Var. Telephorus, Telephonus, Tlephonus, Telophonus.
Synon. Pelicinius.
nigrifrons
L. niger black; frons, frontis forehead, brow.
● ex “Black-fronted Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
SUBSPECIES
Black-fronted Bushshrike (nigrifrons)
SCI Name: Telophorus nigrifrons nigrifrons
nigrifrons
L. niger black; frons, frontis forehead, brow.
● ex “Black-fronted Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
Black-fronted Bushshrike (manningi)
SCI Name: Telophorus nigrifrons manningi
manningi
Brig.-Gen. Sir William Henry Manning (1863-1932) British Army, Commissioner for British Central Africa 1897-1899, Commissioner of British Somaliland 1910, Gov. of Nyasaland 1911-1913, Gov. of Jamaica 1913-1918, Gov. of Ceylon 1918-1925 (subsp. Chlorophoneus nigrifrons).
Black-fronted Bushshrike (sandgroundi)
SCI Name: Telophorus nigrifrons sandgroundi
sandgroundi
Dr John Henry Sandground (1899-1976) US parasitologist, helminthologist (subsp. Chlorophoneus nigrifrons).
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)