Dusky Crested-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Elminia nigromitrata
Protonym:  Terpsiphone nigromitrata J.Orn. 22 p.110
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Elminia
Taxonomy Code:  ducfly1
Type Locality:  Cameroon.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ELMINIA
(Stenostiridae; Ϯ African Blue-flycatcher E. longicauda) St Georges d’Elmina, a port on the Dutch Gold Coast (= Ghana); "Subf. 111. MYIAGRINÆ.  ...  106. Elminia, Bp.   ...   Elminia, Bp., est établi pour l'espèce bleue, Myiagra longicauda, Sw., Flycatchers, t. 25, dont Hartlaub fait bien à tort une Muscipeta." (Bonaparte 1854); "Elminia Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, 38, p. 652 (nomen nudum on p. 388). Type, by original designation, Myiagra longicauda Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 467).
Synon. Erannornis.

nigromitrata / nigromitratus
L. niger  black; mitratus  crowned  < mitra  head-dress, turban  < Gr. μιτρα mitra  head-band, head-dress.

SUBSPECIES

Dusky Crested-Flycatcher (colstoni)
SCI Name: Elminia nigromitrata colstoni
colstoni
Peter R. Colston (b. 1935) English ornithologist at BMNH 1960-1995, collector in Australia and tropical Africa (subsp. Elminia nigromitrata, subsp. Puffinus lherminieri, subsp. Tychaedon leucosticta).

Dusky Crested-Flycatcher (nigromitrata)
SCI Name: Elminia nigromitrata nigromitrata
nigromitrata / nigromitratus
L. niger  black; mitratus  crowned  < mitra  head-dress, turban  < Gr. μιτρα mitra  head-band, head-dress.