Gray-headed Bristlebill / Bleda canicapillus

Gray-headed Bristlebill / Bleda canicapillus

Gray-headed Bristlebill

SCI Name:  Bleda canicapillus
Protonym:  Trichophorus canicapillus J.Orn. 2 p.25
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gyhbri1
Type Locality:  Sierra Leone, Gambia.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

BLEDA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Bristlebill B. syndactylus) Bleda (d. 445) joint ruler of the Huns and brother to Attila, by whom he was murdered; the Red-tailed Bristlebill was originally thought to be allied to the tyrant flycatchers; "L'ordre des Passereaux aussi nous offre des formes très-extraordinaires dans leur petitesse, et, si l'on en voulait des exemples, il nous serait facile de citer les Irrisors, la Falculie, les Phyllastrephus, mon genre Smithornis, mon Bleda (ainsi nommé du frère d'Attila), basé sur la prétendue Dasycephala syndactyla, Sw., les Erythropygia, Smith (proches des Cossypha et les analogues des Copsichus de l'Inde), etc., etc." (Bonaparte 1857); "Bleda Bonaparte, 1857 (Feb.), Rev. Mag. Zool. (Paris) (2), 9, p. 50.  Type, by original designation, Dasycephala syndactyla Swainson." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 273). 
Synon. Idiocichla, Xenocichla.

canicapilla / canicapillum / canicapillus
L. canus  grey; -capillus  -capped, -headed  < capillus  hair of the head.