Chorister Robin-Chat

SCI Name:  Cossypha dichroa
Protonym:  Muscicapa dichroa Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.949
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cossypha
Taxonomy Code:  chrcha1
Type Locality:  South Africa.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
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.

dichroa
Gr. διχρους dikhrous  two-coloured  < δι- di- double-  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  appearance, colour  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

SUBSPECIES

Chorister Robin-Chat (dichroa)
SCI Name: Cossypha dichroa dichroa
dichroa
Gr. διχρους dikhrous  two-coloured  < δι- di- double-  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  appearance, colour  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

Chorister Robin-Chat (mimica)
SCI Name: Cossypha dichroa mimica
mimica / mimicus
L. mimicus  of mimes, mimic  < mimus  actor, mimer  < Gr. μιμος mimos  mimic.