Indochinese Cuckooshrike

Here the details of the Indochinese Cuckooshrike named bird below:

SCI Name:  Lalage polioptera
Protonym:  Campophaga polioptera Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 4 p.59,69 pl.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lalage
Taxonomy Code:  indcus1
Type Locality:  Cochinchina.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LALAGE
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Pied Triller L. nigra) Gr. λαλαξ lalax, λαλαγος lalagos or λαλαγες lalages  unidentified bird mentioned by Hesychius  < λαλαζω lalazō  to chirp or chirrup (cf. this name is also identified with a green tree frog); "IX. Fam.  Myiotheridae.   ...   Lalage: Turdus orientalis Gm. enl. 273 fig. 2. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Lalage Boie, 1826, Isis, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus orientalis Gmelin = Turdus niger Forster." (Mayr in Peters 1960, IX, 196).   
Synon. Acanthinotus, Coquus, Diaphoropterus, Erucivora, Karua, Oscarornis, Oxynotus, Perissolalage, Pseudolalage, Symmorphus.

polioptera / poliopterus
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (pace Clark & Davies 2018 (under Melierax), "The species name, poliopterus, is from the Greek polios for 'grey' and pleura for 'the side'").

POEOPTERA
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Narrow-tailed Starling P. lugubris) Gr. φαιος phaios  grey (cf. πολιος polios  grey); -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing; "Noticeably slender: ad ♂ is black (shows a violet sheen in good light), with creamy-yellow eyes, dull brown-grey wings, and a long narrow graduated tail. Ad ♀ is duller and greyer on the head with chestnut primaries." (Stevenson & Fanshawe 2002); "La soi-disant Muscicapa lugubris, du baron de Muller, est peut-être une des nouvelles Melænornis de Sundeval; toutefois, s'il a voulu illustrer une espèce abyssinienne que nous conservons dans le Musée de Paris, nous lui trouvons un aspect Saxicolien qui nous la fait rapprocher des genres Gervaisia, Bp., et Thamnolæa, Cab.: nous en constituons le genre Poeoptera, Bp., et nous appellerons l'espèce lugubris, qu'elle soit ou non la lugubris, Mull., Nouv. Ois. d'Afrique, I, t. 2.  Atro-cyanea: remigibus interne subtusque latissime cinereo-chalybæis." (Bonaparte 1854); "Poeoptera Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend., 38, p. 381. Type, by monotypy, Poeoptera lugubris Bonaparte." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 86).
Var. Paeoptera, Poeopterus, Polioptera.
Synon. Arizelopsar, Myiopsar, Stilbopsar.

SUBSPECIES

Indochinese Cuckooshrike (jabouillei)
SCI Name: Lalage polioptera jabouillei
jabouillei
Pierre Charles Edmond Jabouille (1875-1947) French colonial administrator, ornithologist, editor of L’Oiseau (subsp. Gallus gallus, subsp. Lalage polioptera).

Indochinese Cuckooshrike (indochinensis)
SCI Name: Lalage polioptera indochinensis
indochina / indochinae / indochinense / indochinensis
Indochina.

Indochinese Cuckooshrike (polioptera)
SCI Name: Lalage polioptera polioptera
polioptera / poliopterus
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (pace Clark & Davies 2018 (under Melierax), "The species name, poliopterus, is from the Greek polios for 'grey' and pleura for 'the side'").