Brown-backed Scrub-Robin / Cercotrichas hartlaubi

Brown-backed Scrub-Robin / Cercotrichas hartlaubi

Brown-backed Scrub-Robin

SCI Name:  Cercotrichas hartlaubi
Protonym:  Erythropygia hartlaubi J.Orn. 39 p.63
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bbsrob1
Type Locality:  Mutjara [= Mutsora, near Ruwenzori, Congo].
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Publish Year:  1891
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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, AgrobatesErythropygia, Podobeus.

hartlaubi
Carl Johann Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900) German ornithologist, collector (syn. Calidris falcinellusCercotrichas, syn. Corythornis cristatus cyanostigma, syn. Coua coquereli, DacnisEuplectes, syn. Euplectes gierowii ansorgei, syn. Hemicircus concretus, Horizocerus, syn. Lamprotornis chalybaeus, syn. Loriculus philippensis apicalis, syn. Neafrapus cassiniOtus, Pternistis, Tauraco).