Blue-crowned Racquet-tail

SCI Name:  Prioniturus discurus
Protonym:  Psittacus discurus Gal.Ois. 1 p.7 pl.26
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prioniturus
Taxonomy Code:  bcrtai1
Type Locality:  Mindanao.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1822
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRIONITURUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Golden-mantled Racquet-tail P. platurus) Genus Prionites Illiger, 1811, motmot; Gr. ουρα oura  tail; "Genus V.  Prioniturus ***) Wagl.  Momotsittich.   Character generis praecedentis [Nymphicus]; rostrum validum; rectrices duae intermediae ante apicem nudae.   Species Asiae incola.   Vitae ratio ignota.    Species: 1. P. platurus.   ...   ***) Sic dictus ob caudae structuram ut in Prionite Momoto.  Prionites (avis) et ουρα cauda." (Wagler 1832); "Prioniturus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 490. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus platurus Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 236).
Synon. Discosurus, Urodiscus.

discura / discurus
Gr. δισκος diskos plate, disc; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

SUBSPECIES

Blue-crowned Racquet-tail (Blue-crowned)
SCI Name: Prioniturus discurus whiteheadi
whiteheadi
● John Whitehead (1860-1899) British explorer, collector in Borneo 1885-1888, the Philippines 1893-1896, and Hainan 1899 (Aerodramus, Calyptomena, syn. Dicaeum haematostictum, subsp. Dicrurus leucophaeus (ex Buchanga palawanensis Whitehead, 1890), Harpactes, syn. Leptocoma sperata henkei, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Nisaetus nipalensis, syn. Pachycephala grisola plateni, subsp. Prioniturus discurus, Sitta, syn. Strix seloputo wiepkeni, syn. Trichastoma bicolor, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus, Urocissa, Urosphena, subsp. Zosterops montanus, Zosterornis).
● Maj. Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead (1880-1915) British Army in India, collector (syn. Zoothera mollissima).

Blue-crowned Racquet-tail (Blue-capped)
SCI Name: Prioniturus discurus discurus
discura / discurus
Gr. δισκος diskos plate, disc; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.