Bornean Blue Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Cyornis superbus
Protonym:  Cyornis superba Orn.Monatsb. 33 p.52
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code:  bobfly2
Type Locality:  Mt. Penrissen, Borneo.
Author:  Stresemann
Publish Year:  1925
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation  Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris].    1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson.  Himalaya   ...   2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female.  Southern India and Malay countries.   ...   3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574.  ...  Inhabits Central India.†   ...   † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 53), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 355).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.

superba / superbus
L. superbus superb, splendid, magnificent < super above.
● ex “Sougnimbindou” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Cinnyris).
● ex “Cock Purple-breasted Manakin” of Edwards 1764, and “Cotinga Cordon Bleu” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Cotinga maculata).
● ex “Merle vert d’Angola” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 561 (syn. Lamprotornis australis).
● ex “Superbe” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 632 (Lophorina).
● ex “Aigle moyen de la Guiane” of Mauduyt de la Varenne 1784, and “Autour Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 26 (syn. Spizaetus ornatus).
● ex “Bec-de-Fer” of Levaillant 1801, pl. 79 (artefact).