Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Cyornis poliogenys
Protonym:  Cyornis poliogenys Str.Feath. 8 p.469
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code:  pacblf1
Type Locality:  Salbaree, Sikkim terai.
Author:  Brooks, WE
Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

poliogene / poliogenis / poliogenys
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.

SUBSPECIES

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (poliogenys)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys poliogenys
poliogene / poliogenis / poliogenys
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (cachariensis)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys cachariensis
cacharensis / cachariensis
Cachar District, Assam, India.

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (laurentei)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys laurentei
laurentei / laurentii
Ernest Paul Laurente (born Laurent) (1892-1968) RAF, consular official, Customs Officer in southern Yunnan, China, collector (Martin Schneider and Paul Scofield in litt.) (syn. Brachypteryx montana cruralis, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, syn. Elachura formosa (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.), subsp. Hemitesia pallidipes, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, syn. Psilopogon asiaticus davisoni).

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (vernayi)
SCI Name: Cyornis poliogenys vernayi
vernayi / verneyi
Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877-1960) English/US antiquarian, collector, sponsor, Trustee of AMNH (subsp. Alauda gulgula, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Gymnobucco, subsp. Leiothrix argentauris, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti, subsp. Rhipidura albogularis, subsp. Tephrodornis virgatus).