Malaysian Blue Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Cyornis turcosus
Protonym:  Cyornis turcosa Abh.naturwiss.Ver.Bremen 5 p.457
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code:  mabfly1
Type Locality:  Moeara Teweh (= Muarateweh), southeastern Borneo.
Author:  Brüggemann
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation  Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris].    1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson.  Himalaya   ...   2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female.  Southern India and Malay countries.   ...   3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574.  ...  Inhabits Central India.†   ...   † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 53), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 355).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.

turcosa / turcosus
Mod. L. turcosus  turquoise-blue  < French turquoise  turquoise  < Old French turkeis  Turkish.