Mountain Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha isabellae
Protonym:  Cossypha Isabellae Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(3), 10 p.443
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  morcha1
Type Locality:  Cameroon Mountain, 7,000 feet.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COSSYPHA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Chorister Robin Chat C. dichroa) Gr. κοσσυφος kossuphos  thrush; "III. FAM. MERULIDÆ.  ...  ****[Subfam.] Cossyphina.  Cossypha.†—Timalia.   ...   † I take this opportunity of characterizing one of the many forms that enter into the present subdivision of the family, for the purpose of pointing out the mode by which the Thrushes gradually pass into the Warblers.   COSSYPHA.  Rostrum mediocre, subgracile, culmine leviter arcuato; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, longitudinalibus. Alæ mediocres, rotundatæ: remige 1ma brevissima, 5ta longissima, 4ta 3tia et 2da paulatim brevioribus; 4tae 5tae et 6tae pogoniis externis leviter prope medium emarginatis.  Pedes subgracilis: tarsis scutellatis, paratarsiis integris. Cauda mediocris, rotundata.  Typus genericus. Turdus vociferans. Swains." (Vigors 1825); "Cossypha Vigors, 1825, Zool. Journ., 2, p. 396. Type, by original designation, Turdus vociferans Swainson = Muscicapa dichroa Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 50).
Var. Cassypha, Cossipha, Gossypha.
Synon. Caffrornis, Hyloaedon, Marisca.

isabellae
● Isabella Cortés (fl. 2006) daughter of Colombian field ornithologist and collector Alexander Cortés-Diago (Eriocnemis).
● Isabel Maria Thirion née Dalla Costa Soubette (1822-1886) Venezuelan wife of French naturalist Eugène Thirion (Iodopleura).
● Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896) traveller, author, wife of Sir Richard Burton (Oreocossypha).
● Isabella Province (= Isabela), northern Luzon, Philippines (Oriolus).

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Robin-Chat (Highland)
SCI Name: Cossypha isabellae batesi
batesi / batesiana
● George Latimer Bates (1863-1940) US planter, ornithologist, collector in Gabon, French Congo and the Cameroons 1895-1928 (syn. Accipiter erythropus, syn. Alcedo leucogaster, Apus, subsp. Aviceda cuculoides, syn. Baeopogon indicator, syn. Batis minor erlangeri, syn. Campethera punctuligera, syn. Canirallus oculeus, Caprimulgus, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, syn. Dendropicos obsoletus, subsp. Dryotriorchis spectabilis, syn. Euplectes axillaris bocagei, subsp. Geokichla princei, syn. Hieraaetus ayresii, subsp. Iduna natalensis, subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri, syn. Lanius meridionalis elegans, syn. Merops muelleri, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Muscicapa sethsmithi, subsp. Oreocossypha isabellae, Ploceus, syn. Sarothrura pulchra, syn. Spizaetus africanus, syn. Sylvietta denti, Terpsiphone, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).
● Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist, entomologist who developed the theory of Batesian mimicry, explorer and collector in Amazonia 1848-1859 (subsp. Melidectes ochromelas).

Mountain Robin-Chat (Mountain)
SCI Name: Cossypha isabellae isabellae
isabellae
● Isabella Cortés (fl. 2006) daughter of Colombian field ornithologist and collector Alexander Cortés-Diago (Eriocnemis).
● Isabel Maria Thirion née Dalla Costa Soubette (1822-1886) Venezuelan wife of French naturalist Eugène Thirion (Iodopleura).
● Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896) traveller, author, wife of Sir Richard Burton (Oreocossypha).
● Isabella Province (= Isabela), northern Luzon, Philippines (Oriolus).