Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Trochocercus nitens
Protonym:  Trochocercus nitens Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 11 p.50
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Trochocercus
Taxonomy Code:  bhcfly1
Type Locality:  Camma River, Western Africa = Sette Cama, Gabon.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TROCHOCERCUS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Southern Crested-flycatcher T. cyanomelas) Gr. τροχος trokhos  round, circular; κερκος kerkos  tail; "Gen. TROCHOCERCUS nov. gen. *) Radschweif.   345. 1.  T. cyanomelas Nob. — Gobe mouches mantelé Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. tab. 151.  Muscicapa cyanomelas Vieill. Encycl. pag. 815. No. 42.  Muscipeta scapularis Steph. — Tchitrea cyanomelas Gray Gen. Birds No. 19.   ...   *) Von τροχος, das kreisförmig Gerundete und κερκος, Schwanz. — Die Gattung bildet ein Bindeglied  zwischen Terpsiphone und Rhipidura; von ersterer unterscheidet sie der kürzere Schnabel und der weichende Lebensweise und z. B. die Eigenthümlichkeit mit dem Schwanze ein Rad zu schlagen; von Rhipidura der breitere Schnabel, die kürzern Flügel; der Federschopf der Haube u.s.w." (Cabanis 1853); "Trochocercus Cabanis, 1850 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, pt. 1, p. 58. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanomelas Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 468).

nitens
L. nitens, nitentis  shining, glittering  < nitere  to shine, to glitter.
● ex “Glossy Finch” of Latham 1783 (syn. Hypochera chalybeata).
● ex “Merle vert d’Angola” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Green Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher (reichenowi)
SCI Name: Trochocercus nitens reichenowi
reichenovi / reichenovii / reichenowi
Prof. Georg Anton Eugen Reichenow (1847-1941) German ornithologist (subsp. Aerodramus spodiopygius, Anthreptes, syn. Anthus spinoletta, Batis, subsp. Bocagia minuta, syn. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, subsp. Cisticola brachypterus,  Crithagra, Cryptospiza, subsp. Dendropicos gabonensis, Drepanorhynchus, syn. Dryocopus martius, subsp. Edolisoma schisticeps, syn. Emberiza goslingi, syn. Galerida cristata arenicola, syn. Gymnoris pyrgita, syn. Illadopsis fulvescens (ex Turdinus rufiventris Reichenow, 1893), syn. Lagonosticta rubricata haematocephala, syn. Lanius collurio (ex Lanius affinis Fischer & Reichenow, 1884), subsp. Melaenornis chocolatinus, syn. Merops viridissimus, syn. Milvus migrans, syn. Myrmecocichla albifrons frontalis, subsp. Numida meleagris, syn. Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii, subsp. Oriolus larvatus, subsp. Pachycephala hyperythra, Pionus, Pitta, subsp. Ploceus baglafecht, subsp. Poicephalus meyeri, syn. Prodotiscus zambesiae ellenbecki, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, subsp. Pteroglossus bitorquatus, syn. Ptyonoprogne obsoleta, syn. Pycnonotus xanthopygos, subsp. Rhipidura dryas, subsp. Sarothrura elegans, subsp. Sasia ochracea, subsp. Schistolais leucopogon, Streptopelia, syn. Symposiachrus axillaris fallax, syn. Tachymarptis aequatorialis, subsp. Tauraco livingstonii, subsp. Trochocercus nitens, syn. Turdoides jardineii emini, subsp. Tychaedon leucosticta, syn. Urorhipis rufifrons rufidorsalis, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).

Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher (nitens)
SCI Name: Trochocercus nitens nitens
nitens
L. nitens, nitentis  shining, glittering  < nitere  to shine, to glitter.
● ex “Glossy Finch” of Latham 1783 (syn. Hypochera chalybeata).
● ex “Merle vert d’Angola” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Green Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).