Gray-headed Bristlebill / Bleda canicapillus
Gray-headed Bristlebill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trichophorus canicapillus J.Orn. 2 p.25
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Bleda
Taxonomy Code: gyhbri1
Type Locality: Sierra Leone, Gambia.
Author: Hartlaub
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)