Blue-fronted Robin

SCI Name:  Cinclidium frontale
Protonym:  Cinclidium frontale J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 11 p.181
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cinclidium
Taxonomy Code:  blfrob1
Type Locality:  Sikkim.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CINCLIDIUM
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-fronted Robin C. frontale) Variant of genus Cinclidia Gould, 1838, babbler; “Cinclidium, Nobis.  The genus Cinclidia, Gould (P. Z. S., 1837, 236 [sic=136]), being identical with Pellornium of Swainson, I transfer the former name (with a slight alteration) to a nearly allied form, characterized as follows.  Bill shorter than the head, straight, slender, higher than broad, the ridge of the upper mandible tolerably acute, and its tip very slightly emarginated; inferior gonys ascending for the terminal half, imparting to the bill the appearance of a tendency to bend upward: naral apertures an elongate-oval fissure in the lateral nasal membrane, and partially impended by the short semi-reflected frontal feathers: gape armed with a few small setæ.  Wings and tail rounded, the 4th, 5th, and 6th primaries equal and longest.  Legs and toes slender, the tarsi smooth and unscutellate, and very long, as is also the middle toe; claws but moderately curved, and of little more than mean length.  Plumage light, soft, and full, having a scale-like appearance on the crown, breast, and belly.    19. C. frontale, Nobis.  ...  Darjeeling.” (Blyth 1842); "Cinclidium Blyth, 1842, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11, p. 181. Type, by montypy [sic], C. frontale Blyth." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 81).
Synon. Callene.

frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis  fronted, frontal  < frontalia or frontale  frontlet  < frons, frontis  forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-fronted Robin (frontale)
SCI Name: Cinclidium frontale frontale
frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis  fronted, frontal  < frontalia or frontale  frontlet  < frons, frontis  forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).

Blue-fronted Robin (orientale)
SCI Name: Cinclidium frontale orientale
orientale / orientalis
L. orientalis  eastern, oriental  < oriens, orientis  east.
● Asia; ex “Anser moschoviticus” of Albin 1731-1738, and “Anser chinensis” of Linnaeus 1747 (syn. Anser cygnoides).
● India; ex Ardea antigone Linnaeus, 1758, “Grus orientalis” of Brisson 1760, and “Indian Crane” of Latham 1785 (syn. Antigone antigone).
● East Indies (= Seram and New Guinea); ex “Casoar des Indes orientales” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 313 (syn. Casuarius casuarius).
● India; ex “Eastern Parrot” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Eclectus roratus).
● East Indies (= Amboina); ex “Coucou noir des Indes” (= ♂) and “Coucou tacheté des Indes” (=♀) of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● East Indies (=Java); ex “Rollier des Indes” of Brisson 1760 (Eurystomus).
● East Indies; ex “Merula indica” of Brisson 1760, “Merle des Indes Orientales” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 273, fig. 2, and “Ash-rumped Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Lalage nigra).
● India; ex “Indian Bee-eater” and “Coromandel Bee-eater” of Latham 1782-1787 (Merops).
● Asia; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus” of previous authors (syn. Pelecanus onocrotalus).
● "91. TETRAO.  ...  orientalis.  12. T. pedibus antice pilosis: abdomine gulaque atra, collari ferrugineo, cauda cuneiformi.  Tetrao orientalis. Hasselq. it. 278. n. 43.  Perdix damascena. Will. orn. 128.  Francolin. Tournef. it. I. p. 158. t. 158.  Habitat in Oriente." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pterocles).
● China; ex “Tourterelle brune de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1782, and “Chinese Turtle” of Latham 1783 (Streptopelia).
● China; ex “China Owl” of Latham 1801 (syn. Strix seloputo).