Red-tailed Bristlebill

SCI Name:  Bleda syndactylus
Protonym:  Dasycephala syndactyla BirdsW.Afr. 1 p.261
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Bleda
Taxonomy Code:  combri2
Type Locality:  Sierra Leone.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BLEDA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Bristlebill B. syndactylus) Bleda (d. 445) joint ruler of the Huns and brother to Attila, by whom he was murdered; the Red-tailed Bristlebill was originally thought to be allied to the tyrant flycatchers; "L'ordre des Passereaux aussi nous offre des formes très-extraordinaires dans leur petitesse, et, si l'on en voulait des exemples, il nous serait facile de citer les Irrisors, la Falculie, les Phyllastrephus, mon genre Smithornis, mon Bleda (ainsi nommé du frère d'Attila), basé sur la prétendue Dasycephala syndactyla, Sw., les Erythropygia, Smith (proches des Cossypha et les analogues des Copsichus de l'Inde), etc., etc." (Bonaparte 1857); "Bleda Bonaparte, 1857 (Feb.), Rev. Mag. Zool. (Paris) (2), 9, p. 50.  Type, by original designation, Dasycephala syndactyla Swainson." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 273). 
Synon. Idiocichla, Xenocichla.

syndactyla / syndactylus
Gr. συν sun together; δακτυλος daktulos toe.

SUBSPECIES

Red-tailed Bristlebill (syndactylus)
SCI Name: Bleda syndactylus syndactylus
syndactyla / syndactylus
Gr. συν sun together; δακτυλος daktulos toe.

Red-tailed Bristlebill (woosnami)
SCI Name: Bleda syndactylus woosnami
woosnami
Maj. Richard Bowen Woosnam (1880–1915) British Army in South Africa and the Dardanelles, collector, explorer in tropical Africa and the Middle East (subsp. Alethe castanea, subsp. Bleda syndactylus, Cisticola).

Red-tailed Bristlebill (nandensis)
SCI Name: Bleda syndactylus nandensis
nandensis
Nandi Forest, Kenya.