White-crowned Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha albicapillus
Protonym:  Turdus albicapillus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 20 p.254
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  wcrcha1
Type Locality:  Senegal.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
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.

albicapilla / albicapillus
L. albus white; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Geay de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760, and “Geai de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 373 (syn. Cyanocorax cayanus).
● ex “Capuchon Blanc” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 159 (unident.).
● ex “White-crowned Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

White-crowned Robin-Chat (albicapillus)
SCI Name: Cossypha albicapillus albicapillus
albicapilla / albicapillus
L. albus white; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Geay de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760, and “Geai de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 373 (syn. Cyanocorax cayanus).
● ex “Capuchon Blanc” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 159 (unident.).
● ex “White-crowned Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

White-crowned Robin-Chat (giffardi)
SCI Name: Cossypha albicapillus giffardi
giffardi
Col. William Carter Giffard (1859-1921) British Army in the Gold Coast 1897-1898 (subsp. Cossypha albicapillus, syn. Galerida modesta).

White-crowned Robin-Chat (omoensis)
SCI Name: Cossypha albicapillus omoensis
omo / omoensis
Omo River, southwestern Ethiopia.