Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha cyanocampter
Protonym:  B.(essonornis) cyanocampter Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.301
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  bsrcha1
Type Locality:  'Tatria ignota [= Dabokrom, Gold Coast, apud Hartlaub, 1857, Syst. Orn. Westaf r., p. 76] .
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
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.

cyanocampter
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; καμπτος kamptos flank, bend.

SUBSPECIES

Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat (cyanocampter)
SCI Name: Cossypha cyanocampter cyanocampter
cyanocampter
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; καμπτος kamptos flank, bend.

Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat (bartteloti)
SCI Name: Cossypha cyanocampter bartteloti
bartteloti
Maj. Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (1859-1888) British Army, explorer, leader of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-1888 (subsp. Cossypha cyanocampter).