Red-capped Crombec / Sylvietta ruficapilla
Red-capped Crombec
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvietta ruficapilla J.Sci.Math.Phys.Nat.Lisboa(1), 6 p.160
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Macrosphenidae / Sylvietta
Taxonomy Code: reccro1
Type Locality: Caconda, Angola.
Author: Bocage
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SYLVIETTA
(Macrosphenidae; Ϯ Northern Crombec S. brachyura) Mod. L. sylvietta little warbler, woodland sprite < dim. genus Sylvia Scopoli, 1769, warbler; "Familia SYLVIDÆ, Sectio Sylvidæ paroideæ, sub-gen. Sylvietta de La Fr., Sylvietta brachyura, de La Fr. ... Ce petit bec-fin du Sénégal a un plumage entièrement coloré comme celui du Figuier crombec de Levaillant, pl. 135, de l'Afrique australe, remarquable ainsi que lui par une queue d'une brièveté extraordinaire et conforme également quant aux pattes, mais ayant le bec plus allongé et plus arqué, d'où son nom hollandais de Krome-bec, bec courbé. Levaillant observe à son sujet que, malgré ce bec allongé et arqué comme celui des Sucriers, cet oiseau ne se nourrit nullement du suc des fleurs, mais voltige sans cesse dans le feuillage à la recherche des insectes, sa seule nourriture comme les vrais figuiers: il indique seulement qu'il pourrait former un petit genre de transition entre les figuiers et les sucriers, ou Soui-mangas. ... Nous ajoutons donc aux Sylvietta crombec et brachyura, la Sylvietta icteropygialis, de La Fr." (de La Fresnaye 1839); "Sylvietta Lafresnaye, 1839, Rev. Zool. Paris, 2, p. 258. Type, by original designation, Sylvietta brachyura Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 207).
Var. Sylviella, Sylvetta, Sylveta.
Synon. Baeocerca, Oligocercus, Oligura.
ruficapilla / ruficapillum / ruficapillus
L. rufus red, ruddy, rufous; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Tutu” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 52, and “Motmot Oranroux” of Levaillant 1806 < French orange orange; roux red (Baryphthengus).
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Rousse-Tête” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 124 (syn. Cisticola fulvicapillus).
● ex “Ficedula martinicana” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bloody-side Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (subsp. Dendroica petechia).
● ex “Tachurí corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 164 (syn. Euscarthmus meloryphus).
● ex “Suirirí cabeza y rabadilla de canela” (= ♀) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 178 (syn. Knipolegus cyanirostris).
● ex “Guêpier Rousse Tête” or “Guêpier Bonelli” of Levaillant 1814, pl. 19 (syn. Merops superciliosus).
● ex “Ortolan de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 158, fig. 1 (syn. Zonotrichia leucophrys).
SUBSPECIES
Red-capped Crombec (rufigenis)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla rufigenis
rufigena / rufigene / rufigenis
L. rufus rufous; gena cheek.
Red-capped Crombec (schoutedeni)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla schoutedeni
schoutedeni
Dr Henri Eugène Alphonse Hubert Schouteden (1881-1972) Belgian zoologist, explorer in the Congo (subsp. Anthus nyassae, syn. Apalis goslingi, subsp. Chlorocichla laetissima, syn. Cisticola luapula, syn. Estrilda astrild cavendishi, syn. Guttera verreauxi, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, subsp. Phyllastrephus cerviniventris, subsp. Phylloscopus laetus, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus, Schoutedenapus, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Sylvietta ruficapilla).
Red-capped Crombec (gephyra)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla gephyra
gephyra
Gr. γεφυρα gephura bridge, causeway, tunnel (cf. γεφυριζω gephurizō to abuse freely).
Red-capped Crombec (chubbi)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla chubbi
chubbi
● Charles Chubb (1851-1924) British ornithologist at BMNH 1877-1920 (Cichlopsis, Cisticola, syn. Garrodia nereis, syn. Lamprotornis splendidus lessoni, syn. Tyrannus melancholicus (Laurent Raty in litt.)).
● Ernest Charles Chubb (1884-1972) British ornithologist (son of Charles Chubb), Assistant Curator Bulawayo Museum, Curator Durban Museum (subsp. Mandingoa nitidula, subsp. Sylvietta ruficapilla).
Red-capped Crombec (makayii)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla makayii
makayii
M. G. Makayi (fl. 1950) African hunter, collector for C. M. N. White in Northern Rhodesia (subsp. Sylvietta ruficapilla).
Red-capped Crombec (ruficapilla)
SCI Name: Sylvietta ruficapilla ruficapilla
ruficapilla / ruficapillum / ruficapillus
L. rufus red, ruddy, rufous; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Tutu” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 52, and “Motmot Oranroux” of Levaillant 1806 < French orange orange; roux red (Baryphthengus).
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Rousse-Tête” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 124 (syn. Cisticola fulvicapillus).
● ex “Ficedula martinicana” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bloody-side Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (subsp. Dendroica petechia).
● ex “Tachurí corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 164 (syn. Euscarthmus meloryphus).
● ex “Suirirí cabeza y rabadilla de canela” (= ♀) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 178 (syn. Knipolegus cyanirostris).
● ex “Guêpier Rousse Tête” or “Guêpier Bonelli” of Levaillant 1814, pl. 19 (syn. Merops superciliosus).
● ex “Ortolan de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 158, fig. 1 (syn. Zonotrichia leucophrys).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: extinct
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