Bearded Scrub-Robin

SCI Name:  Cercotrichas quadrivirgata
Protonym:  Thamnobia quadrivirgata Orn.Centralbl. 4 p.114
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code:  besrob1
Type Locality:  Kapini [=Kipini], lower Tana River [reference not verified] .
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1879
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CERCOTRICHAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Black Scrub Robin C. podobe) Gr. κερκος kerkos  tail; τριχας trikhas, τριχαδος trikhados  thrush; alluding to the long, expressive tail of the Black Scrub Robin; "Cercotrichas.  Unter diesen Namen vereinige ich Turdus phoenicopterus Tem.  T. erythropterus, T. macrourus Lath.  T. tricolor Vieill. Afr. pl. 14.  Sax. leucampter Museum Berl." (Boie 1831); "Cercotrichas Boie, 1831, Isis, p. 542. Type, by subsequent designation (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, Vög. Ost.-Afr., p. 249), Turdus erythropterus Gmelin = Turdus podobe Müller." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 27). 
Synon. Aedon, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.

quadrivirgata
L. quadri-  four-  < quattuor  four; virgatus  striped  < virga  streak.

SUBSPECIES

Bearded Scrub-Robin (Bearded)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas quadrivirgata quadrivirgata
quadrivirgata
L. quadri-  four-  < quattuor  four; virgatus  striped  < virga  streak.

Bearded Scrub-Robin (Zanzibar)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas quadrivirgata greenwayi
greenwayi
● Lt.-Commander James Cowan Greenway, Jr. (1903-1989) US Navy, ornithologist at MCZ 1932-1960, AMNH 1960-1989, conservationist (subsp. Trochalopteron formosum).
● Dr Percy James Greenway (1897-1980) South African botanist, East African Agricultural Research Station 1927-1950, East African Herbarium 1950-1958 (subsp. Tychaedon quadrivirgata).