Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha niveicapilla
Protonym:  Turdus niveicapilla EssaiNouv.Man.Group.Gen.Esp.Ord.Pass. p.16
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  scrcha1
Type Locality:  Senegal,
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1838
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.

niveicapilla
L. niveus  snow-white  < nix, nivis  snow; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.

SUBSPECIES

Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (niveicapilla)
SCI Name: Cossypha niveicapilla niveicapilla
niveicapilla
L. niveus  snow-white  < nix, nivis  snow; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.

Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (melanonota)
SCI Name: Cossypha niveicapilla melanonota
melanonota / melanonotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.
● ex “Pico de punzon azul y canala” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 104 (Pipraeidea).