Green-tailed Bristlebill / Bleda eximius

Green-tailed Bristlebill / Bleda eximius

Green-tailed Bristlebill

SCI Name:  Bleda eximius
Protonym:  Trichophorus eximius J.Orn. 3 p.356
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gntbri1
Type Locality:  Dabocrom, Gold Coast.
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Publish Year:  1855
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DEFINITIONS

BLEDA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Bristlebill B. syndactylus) Bleda (d. 445) joint ruler of the Huns and brother to Attila, by whom he was murdered; the Red-tailed Bristlebill was originally thought to be allied to the tyrant flycatchers; "L'ordre des Passereaux aussi nous offre des formes très-extraordinaires dans leur petitesse, et, si l'on en voulait des exemples, il nous serait facile de citer les Irrisors, la Falculie, les Phyllastrephus, mon genre Smithornis, mon Bleda (ainsi nommé du frère d'Attila), basé sur la prétendue Dasycephala syndactyla, Sw., les Erythropygia, Smith (proches des Cossypha et les analogues des Copsichus de l'Inde), etc., etc." (Bonaparte 1857); "Bleda Bonaparte, 1857 (Feb.), Rev. Mag. Zool. (Paris) (2), 9, p. 50.  Type, by original designation, Dasycephala syndactyla Swainson." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 273). 
Synon. Idiocichla, Xenocichla.

eximium / eximius
L. eximius  select, distinguished  < eximere  to take away  < emere  to purchase.