Livingstone's Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Erythrocercus livingstonei
Protonym:  Erythrocercus Livingstonei Vog.Ost.-Afr.[Finsch & Hartlaub] p.303
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Erythrocercus
Taxonomy Code:  livfly1
Type Locality:  Zambezi; restricted to Zumbo, Zambia-Mozambique border, by Irwin, 1957, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, 77, p. 119.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ERYTHROCERCUS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Chestnut-capped Flycatcher E. mccallii). Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; κερκος kerkos  tail; "Erythrocercus, nob.   298. Mc'Callii, (Cass.)  Minor; pileo et cauda nitide rufis, illo albo striolato; dorso, uropygio et tectricibus alae dilute cinereis, uropygio rufescente tincto; supracaudalibus rufis; gutture et pectore pallide fulvis; abdomine et subcaudalibus albis; subalaribus pallide fulvis; rostro et pedibus pallidis; maxilla subcurvata; vibrissis rictalibus longis, rigidiusculis; alis mediocribus, remigibus 4 et 5 subaequalibus, longioribus; cauda longiuscula; pedibus subelongatis; pilei plumis subelongatis, tergi et uropygii longis, sericeis.   ...   Syn. Pycnosphrys Mc'Callii, Cass. Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. 1855, p. 326.   Ich weiss die Annahme einer ächten Pycnosphrys-art in Africa mit meinen Ansichten von geographischer Zoologie nicht in Einklang zu bringen und ziehe es vor die von mir nicht gesehene aber jedenfalls sehr eigenthümliche westafricanische Form generisch zu isoliren." (Hartlaub 1857); "Erythrocercus Hartlaub, 1857, Syst. Ornith. Westafrica's, p. 97. Type, by monotypy, Pycnosphrys mcCallii Cassin." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 465).   
Synon. Chloropetella.

erythrocercus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; κερκος kerkos tail.
● Gadow 1884, W. Sclater 1930, and Cheke & Mann 2001, considered erythrocerca to be an original misprint for erythroceria. Despite von Heuglin’s 1864, correction, “in meinem Syst. Verz. d. V. N.-O.-Africa’s [1857] fälschlich erythrocerca geschreiben”, Rand in Peters’ 1967, wrote, “However, Heuglin’s nomen nudum for this taxon ...which predates Hartlaub’s name, is spelled “erythrocerca”; there seems no reason to believe Hartlaub did not also intend the spelling to be “erythrocerca”. Neither sex of the Red-chested Sunbird has a red tail, but common sense did not prevail and the species still holds this epithet! (Cinnyris).

livingstonei / livingstoni / livingstonii
● C. Carey Livingston (fl. 1940) US ornithologist at Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (subsp. Chlorospingus semifuscus).
● Dr David Livingstone (1813–1873) Scottish missionary to tropical Africa, anti-slaver, explorer (Erythrocercus, subsp. Oenanthe pileata).
● Gerald Moncrieffe Livingston (1883-1950) US sportsman, father-in-law of ornithologist S. Dillon Ripley (subsp. Garrulax caerulatus).
● Revd. Charles Livingstone (1821-1873) Scottish missionary, explorer (secretary to his brother David on the Zambezi Expedition 1858-1863), British Consul to Fernando Póo, Benin, Biafra and the Niger 1864-1873 (Tauraco).

SUBSPECIES

Livingstone's Flycatcher (thomsoni)
SCI Name: Erythrocercus livingstonei thomsoni
thomsoni
● Joseph Thomson (1858-1895) Scottish explorer in tropical Africa 1879-1883 (subsp. Erythrocercus livingstonei).
● Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1939) British colonial administrator in Fiji, British New Guinea and Tonga 1884-1893, Assistant-Commissioner Metropolitan Police 1913-1919, Director of Intelligence, Scotland Yard 1919-1921 (syn. Phonygammus keraudrenii hunsteini).

Livingstone's Flycatcher (livingstonei)
SCI Name: Erythrocercus livingstonei livingstonei
livingstonei / livingstoni / livingstonii
● C. Carey Livingston (fl. 1940) US ornithologist at Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (subsp. Chlorospingus semifuscus).
● Dr David Livingstone (1813–1873) Scottish missionary to tropical Africa, anti-slaver, explorer (Erythrocercus, subsp. Oenanthe pileata).
● Gerald Moncrieffe Livingston (1883-1950) US sportsman, father-in-law of ornithologist S. Dillon Ripley (subsp. Garrulax caerulatus).
● Revd. Charles Livingstone (1821-1873) Scottish missionary, explorer (secretary to his brother David on the Zambezi Expedition 1858-1863), British Consul to Fernando Póo, Benin, Biafra and the Niger 1864-1873 (Tauraco).

Livingstone's Flycatcher (francisi)
SCI Name: Erythrocercus livingstonei francisi
francisi
• Capt. Henry Farmer Francis (d. 1901) and his brother Corp. Walter Edmund Francis (d. 1900) British Army, killed during Boer War, big-game hunters, explorers (subsp. Erythrocercus livingstonei).
• Robert Francis (fl. 1869) British businessman in China, delegate of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (syn. Motacilla alba leucopsis).