Blue-throated Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Cyornis rubeculoides
Protonym:  Phoenicura rubeculoides Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.3 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code:  butfly1
Type Locality:  Himalayas; restricted to Simla- Almora by Ticehurst and Whistler, 1924, Ibis, p. 471, to Darjeeling by Stuart Baker, 1924, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, ed. 2, 2, p. 231.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation  Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris].    1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson.  Himalaya   ...   2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female.  Southern India and Malay countries.   ...   3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574.  ...  Inhabits Central India.†   ...   † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 53), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 355).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.

rubeculoides
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (i.e. red-breasted).
● "Fringillidæ.   ...   Propyrrhula subhemachalana, [drawing nos.] 471, 472.   P. rubeculoides, [drawing no.] 831.   P. sipahi, [drawing nos.] 320, 321." (Hodgson 1844); "Propyrrhula Rubeculoides, mihi.—Above, together with the lower breast, belly and vent, smoky brown; face as far back as the eye, chin, throat and breast, bright red, of a sanguineous scarlet hue" (Hodgson 1845) (syn. Carpodacus punicea).
● "PHŒNICURA RUBECULOÏDES.  Phœn. capite, collo, corporeque supra atro-cæruleis, capitis summo splendidiore; abdomine albo; pectore rufo.  Statura Phœn. cæruleocephalæ." (Vigors 1831) (Cyornis).
● "91.  SAXICOLA RUBECULOÏDES.  Sax. cinereo-brunnea, subtus alba; gula thoraceque rufis; rectricibus mediis nigrescentibus, cæteris ad basin albis.  Irides intense brunneæ." (Sykes 1831) (syn. Ficedula albicilla).
● "Genus.  MYIAGRA.   ...   1. RUBECOLOIDES [sic].  My. plumbeo-grisea, gutture pectoreque rufis, abdomine albido, pteromatibus remigibus rectricibusque fuscis." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827) (syn. Myiagra rubecula).
● "578.  ACCENTOR RUBECULOIDES, Hodgson.  ...  back and rump ferruginous  ...  breast and forepart of flanks ferruginous, the latter streaked with dusky; belly white, tinged with ferruginous on the flanks posteriorly" (Moore 1854) (Prunella).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-throated Flycatcher (rubeculoides)
SCI Name: Cyornis rubeculoides rubeculoides
rubeculoides
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (i.e. red-breasted).
● "Fringillidæ.   ...   Propyrrhula subhemachalana, [drawing nos.] 471, 472.   P. rubeculoides, [drawing no.] 831.   P. sipahi, [drawing nos.] 320, 321." (Hodgson 1844); "Propyrrhula Rubeculoides, mihi.—Above, together with the lower breast, belly and vent, smoky brown; face as far back as the eye, chin, throat and breast, bright red, of a sanguineous scarlet hue" (Hodgson 1845) (syn. Carpodacus punicea).
● "PHŒNICURA RUBECULOÏDES.  Phœn. capite, collo, corporeque supra atro-cæruleis, capitis summo splendidiore; abdomine albo; pectore rufo.  Statura Phœn. cæruleocephalæ." (Vigors 1831) (Cyornis).
● "91.  SAXICOLA RUBECULOÏDES.  Sax. cinereo-brunnea, subtus alba; gula thoraceque rufis; rectricibus mediis nigrescentibus, cæteris ad basin albis.  Irides intense brunneæ." (Sykes 1831) (syn. Ficedula albicilla).
● "Genus.  MYIAGRA.   ...   1. RUBECOLOIDES [sic].  My. plumbeo-grisea, gutture pectoreque rufis, abdomine albido, pteromatibus remigibus rectricibusque fuscis." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827) (syn. Myiagra rubecula).
● "578.  ACCENTOR RUBECULOIDES, Hodgson.  ...  back and rump ferruginous  ...  breast and forepart of flanks ferruginous, the latter streaked with dusky; belly white, tinged with ferruginous on the flanks posteriorly" (Moore 1854) (Prunella).

Blue-throated Flycatcher (dialilaemus)
SCI Name: Cyornis rubeculoides dialilaemus
dialilaema / dialilaemus
L. dialis  ethereal; Gr. λαιμος laimos  throat.

Blue-throated Flycatcher (rogersi)
SCI Name: Cyornis rubeculoides rogersi
rogersi
● Charles Henry Rogers (1888-1977) US ornithologist, conservationist, Curator of Princeton Mus. (subsp. Aerodramus brevirostris, subsp. Yuhina flavicollis).
● John Porter Rogers (1873-1941) Australian ornithologist, gold prospector, collector (syn. Anas gracilis, subsp. Anas superciliosa, subsp. Anthus novaeseelandiae, subsp. Butorides striata, subsp. Calidris canutus, syn. Calidris falcinellus, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Chalcites osculans, subsp. Chalcophaps indica, syn. Chlidonias hybrida javanicus, syn. Cincloramphus cruralis, syn. Circus assimilis, syn. Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera, syn. Eulabeornis castaneoventris, syn. Gavicalis virescens forresti, subsp. Gerygone olivacea, syn. Limicola falcinellus sibirica, subsp. Malurus lamberti, syn. Myiagra nana, syn. Nettapus pulchellus, syn. Onychoprion anaethetus, syn. Pardalotus striatus substriatus, syn. Petrochelidon nigricans neglecta, syn. Plegadis falcinellus, subsp. Podargus papuensis, syn. Polytelis alexandrae, syn. Poodytes carteri, syn. Smicrornis brevirostris flavescens, syn. Sula leucogaster plotus, syn. Synoicus ypsilophorus australis).
● Revd. Henry Martyn Rogers (1879-1926) British missionary, resident chaplain on Tristan d’Acunha 1922-1925 (Atlantisia).
● H. E. Rogers (fl. 1928) British animal and bird dealer based in Liverpool (syn. Casuarius bennetti westermanni).
● Charles Gilbert Rogers (1864-1937) British civil administrator with Imperial Forestry Commission in India and Burma 1888-1919, naturalist, collector (subsp. Cyornis rubeculoides).
● Dr David Banks Rogers (1868-1954) US anthropologist, archaeologist (‡Phalacrocorax).