Red-capped Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha natalensis
Protonym:  Cossypha natalensis Ill.Zool.S.Afr. pl.60,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  rcrcha1
Type Locality:  neighborhood of Port Natal [= Durban] .
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1840
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.

natalensis
Natal or Port Natal / Durban, South Africa (named Terra Natalis Land of the Holy Birth, by Vasco da Gama when his expedition sailed along the coast in December 1497).

SUBSPECIES

Red-capped Robin-Chat (larischi)
SCI Name: Cossypha natalensis larischi
larischi
N. von Larisch (fl. 1950) collector in Angola (subsp. Cossypha natalensis).

Red-capped Robin-Chat (intensa)
SCI Name: Cossypha natalensis intensa
intensa
L. intensus violent, intense, stretched < intendere to strain (cf. Late L. intensus eager, strong, intense).

Red-capped Robin-Chat (natalensis)
SCI Name: Cossypha natalensis natalensis
natalensis
Natal or Port Natal / Durban, South Africa (named Terra Natalis Land of the Holy Birth, by Vasco da Gama when his expedition sailed along the coast in December 1497).