Black Scrub-Robin

SCI Name:  Cercotrichas podobe
Protonym:  Turdus podobe Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.145
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code:  blsrob1
Type Locality:  Senegal.
Author:  Statius Muller
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CERCOTRICHAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Black Scrub Robin C. podobe) Gr. κερκος kerkos  tail; τριχας trikhas, τριχαδος trikhados  thrush; alluding to the long, expressive tail of the Black Scrub Robin; "Cercotrichas.  Unter diesen Namen vereinige ich Turdus phoenicopterus Tem.  T. erythropterus, T. macrourus Lath.  T. tricolor Vieill. Afr. pl. 14.  Sax. leucampter Museum Berl." (Boie 1831); "Cercotrichas Boie, 1831, Isis, p. 542. Type, by subsequent designation (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, Vög. Ost.-Afr., p. 249), Turdus erythropterus Gmelin = Turdus podobe Müller." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 27). 
Synon. Aedon, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.

podobe
Homophone < French peau skin; Old French dauber to whiten (cf. “probablement nom local de l’espèce” (Cabard & Chauvet 2003)); ex “Merle du Sénégal” and “Podobé” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 354, and “Podobé du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Cercotrichas).

SUBSPECIES

Black Scrub-Robin (podobe)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas podobe podobe
podobe
Homophone < French peau skin; Old French dauber to whiten (cf. “probablement nom local de l’espèce” (Cabard & Chauvet 2003)); ex “Merle du Sénégal” and “Podobé” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 354, and “Podobé du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Cercotrichas).

Black Scrub-Robin (melanoptera)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas podobe melanoptera
melanoptera
Gr. μελανοπτερος melanopteros  black-winged  < μελας melas, μελανος  melanos  black; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron wing.
● “The correct name of this bird is somewhat difficult to determine. It was first obtained by Dr A. von Nordmann in south Russia, and sent to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow under the manuscript name of G. melanoptera. This was altered by the editor of the Society’s publications - Fischer - with the approbation of the Society, to nordmanni, but the original description was drawn up by Nordmann himself” (BOU 1915) (syn. Glareola nordmanni).
● ex “Grand Martin-pêcheur de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 232 (syn. Halcyon smyrnensis).
● ex “Paloma montés” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 319 (syn. Patagioenas cayennensis sylvestris).
● ex “Muscicapa senegalensis torquata” of Brisson 1760, “Gobe-mouche à gorge rousse du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1782, pl. 567, fig. 3, “Gobe-mouche à gorge brune du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Collared Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Platysteira cyanea).