Blue-capped Cordonbleu

SCI Name:  Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
Protonym:  Estrilda cyanocephala Auk 14 p.157 spdP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Uraeginthus
Taxonomy Code:  blccor1
Type Locality:  Useri River, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Author:  Richmond
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

URAEGINTHUS
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu U. bengalus) Gr. ουρα oura  tail; αιγινθος aiginthos  unknown bird, perhaps a finch; "Gen. URAEGINTHUS nov. gen. **) Granat-Astrild.   841.  1. U. phoenicotis Nob. — Fringilla bengalus (!) Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 32. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 920. No. 32. — Mareposa Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 5. — Fringilla bengalus Vieill. Enc. méth. p. 987. No. 122. — Estrelda phoenicotis Sws. B. W. Afr. II. p. 192. tab. 14.   Estrelda benghala Gray Gen. Birds No. 4. — Fringilla angolensis Lin.?   ...   842.  2. U. granatinus Nob. — Fringilla granatina Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 11. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 906. No. 11. — id. Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 17. 18. — Estrelda granatina Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 75. No. 4.   ...   **) Von ουρα, ἡ Schwanz und αιγινθος nom. prop. — Alle Körpertheile stärker entwickelt als in Habropyga; der Schwanz sehr lang und sehr stufig; die ersten Handschwingen verengt." (Cabanis 1853); "Uraeginthus Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 171. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 76), Fringilla bengalus Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1968, XIV, 331).
Var. Uraegnathus.
Synon. Bengalis, Mariposa.

cyanocephalus
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

Cyanocephalus
(Corvidae; syn. Gymnorhinus † Pinyon Jay G. cyanocephalus) Specific name Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus zu Wied, 1841; "di recente due nuove specie di Uccelli dell' America settentrionale, Zonotrichia comata, Wied, nei FRINGILLINI, e Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Wied, nei GARRULINI, l'ultima delle quali costituisce un genere a sè, per cui mi veggo costretto a proporre il nome di Cyanocephalus come generico, quello datogli dal fondatore trovandosi già impiegato" (Bonaparte 1842) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Cyanocephalus Bonaparte, Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vert., p. 17, 1842—type, by monotypy, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Wied." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 9).