Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

SCI Name:  Uraeginthus bengalus
Protonym:  Fringilla bengalus Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.323
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Uraeginthus
Taxonomy Code:  reccor
Type Locality:  Bengal [emended to Senegal by Hartlaub, 1857, Syst. Ornith. Westaf rika, p. 145] .
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

URAEGINTHUS
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu U. bengalus) Gr. ουρα oura  tail; αιγινθος aiginthos  unknown bird, perhaps a finch; "Gen. URAEGINTHUS nov. gen. **) Granat-Astrild.   841.  1. U. phoenicotis Nob. — Fringilla bengalus (!) Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 32. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 920. No. 32. — Mareposa Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 5. — Fringilla bengalus Vieill. Enc. méth. p. 987. No. 122. — Estrelda phoenicotis Sws. B. W. Afr. II. p. 192. tab. 14.   Estrelda benghala Gray Gen. Birds No. 4. — Fringilla angolensis Lin.?   ...   842.  2. U. granatinus Nob. — Fringilla granatina Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 11. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 906. No. 11. — id. Vieill. Ois. chant. tab. 17. 18. — Estrelda granatina Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 75. No. 4.   ...   **) Von ουρα, ἡ Schwanz und αιγινθος nom. prop. — Alle Körpertheile stärker entwickelt als in Habropyga; der Schwanz sehr lang und sehr stufig; die ersten Handschwingen verengt." (Cabanis 1853); "Uraeginthus Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 171. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 76), Fringilla bengalus Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1968, XIV, 331).
Var. Uraegnathus.
Synon. Bengalis, Mariposa.

bengalus
Erroneous TL. Bengal (= Senegal); ex “Bengali”of Brisson 1760 (in the mistaken belief that the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu came from Bengal) (Uraeginthus).

SUBSPECIES

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (bengalus)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus
bengalus
Erroneous TL. Bengal (= Senegal); ex “Bengali”of Brisson 1760 (in the mistaken belief that the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu came from Bengal) (Uraeginthus).

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (brunneigularis)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus brunneigularis
brunneigularis
Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown; gularis  throated  < L. gula  throat.

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (ugogensis)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus ugogensis
ugogensis / ugogoensis
Ugogo District, central German East Africa / Tanzania.

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (katangae)
SCI Name: Uraeginthus bengalus katangae
katanga / katangae / katangensis
Katanga, Belgian Congo / DR Congo.