Capuchin Babbler

SCI Name:  Turdoides atripennis
Protonym:  Crateropus atripennis BirdsW.Afr. 1 p.278
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Turdoides
Taxonomy Code:  capbab1
Type Locality:  western Africa ; restricted to Senegal, apud Sclater.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TURDOIDES
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ White-headed Babbler T. leucocephala) Genus Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, thrush; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "Turdoides leucocephala, (Mus. Francof.)  Weißköpfiger Droßling.   ...   Die Droßlinge (Turdoides) bilden eine von den Droßeln (Turdus) wohl zu unterscheidende Familie, die eine Menge von Arten zählt, von denen Rüppel bereits vier aus dem nördlichen Afrika eingesendet hat. Wir werden die Abbildungen und Beschreibungen von dreyen derselben in dem Atlas liefern. Auch erwarten wir duie Bekanntmachung anderer in Indien entdeckten Arten der Gattung Turdoides von Herrn Temminck, der solche zuerst aufgestellt hat." (Cretzschmar 1827); "Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1827, in Rüppell's Atlas, Vög., hft. 4, p. 6, pl. 4. Type, by monotypy, Turdoides leucocephalus Cretzschmar." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 331).
Var. Tordoides.
Synon. Aethocichla, Aipunemia, Crateropus, Cratopus, Ischyropodus, Layardia, Malacocircus, Malcolmia, Pengia.

turdoides
L. turdus  thrush; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling.
● “Both Seebohm and Saunders have used Meyer’s name Sylvia turdoides, 1815, for the Great Reed-Warbler, because, according to the first named, Linnaeus in placing the species under the genus Turdus made the definition quite misleading. Turdus arundinaceus of Linnaeus was, however, founded on Klein’s Turdus musicus palustris, which undoubtedly refers to the Great Reed-Warbler, and there can be no objection to the name, which is the oldest and has always been more or less in use” (BOU 1915) (syn. Acrocephalus arundinaceus).
● “Altogether of a much Thrush-like appearance” (Hartert 1896) (Cataponera).
● "14.  COLLURICINCLE GRIVELÉ.  —  COLLURICINCLA TURDOIDES.  ...  Ce Colluricincle est originaire de Raffles-Bay.  Il appartient à la section des espèces de ce genre qui est caractérisée par un bec plus large et moins comprimée.  Ses couleurs et sa petite taille le rapprochent du Colluricincla brunnea Gould; il s'en isole par la coloration à peu près uniforme de la région thoraco-abdominale." (Pucheran 1853) (syn. Colluricincla parvula).

atripennis
L. ater  black; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

SUBSPECIES

Capuchin Babbler (Gray-hooded)
SCI Name: Turdoides atripennis atripennis
atripennis
L. ater  black; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

Capuchin Babbler (Black-crowned)
SCI Name: Turdoides atripennis rubiginosus
rubiginosa / rubiginosus
L. rubiginosus  rusty, ferruginous  < rubigo, rubiginis  rust  < rubeus  reddish.
● ex “Ardea naevia” of Miller 1776, and “Rusty-crowned Heron” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (syn. Nycticorax nycticorax).

Capuchin Babbler (Brown-throated)
SCI Name: Turdoides atripennis bohndorffi
bohndorffi
Friedrich Bohndorff (?1848-?1895) German interpreter, district administrator in the Sudan, naturalist, collector, explorer in the Sudan and Congo 1876-1884 (subsp. Anthus leucophrys, subsp. Cyanomitra verticalis, Phyllanthus, syn. Ploceus cucullatus, syn. Poicephalus flavifrons, syn. Strix woodfordi nuchalis).