Many-colored Bushshrike

SCI Name:  Telophorus multicolor
Protonym:  Laniarius multicolor Gen.Birds 1 p.229 pl.LXXII
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Telophorus
Taxonomy Code:  macbus2
Type Locality:  no locality ; type locality restricted to Accra, Banner mann, 1939, Birds Trop. W. Afr., 5, p. 428.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TELOPHORUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Bokmakierie T. zeylonus) No etymology given. This name may reflect the colorful plumage of the Bokmakierie (Gr. τελος telos  perfect; -φορος
-phoros  bearing  < φορεω phoreō  to carry). Swainson subsequently used Telophonus (Gr. τελος telos  perfect; φωνη phōnē  voice), given in allusion to the unusual duetting song of this bush-shrike; "Genus, TELOPHORUS.  Rostrum sub-elongatum, sed capite brevius; culmine gradatim arcuato; vibrissæ mastacales paucæ, debiles. Pedes validi; tarsi elevati; digiti laterales æquales; ungues graciles, acutissimi. Alæ rotundatæ. Cauda gradata. Colores vividi.  Type.— Telophorus collaris, SWAINS.  La Backbakiri, LE VAILL. Ois. de l'Afr., ii., pl. 67." (Swainson 1832); "Telophorus Swainson, 1831, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., pt. 2, p. 481. Type, by monotypy, Telophorus collaris Swainson = Turdus zeylonus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 333).
Var. Telephorus, Telephonus, Tlephonus, Telophonus.
Synon. Pelicinius.

multicolor
L. multicolor, multicoloris  multi-coloured, many coloured  < multus  many; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Pic à cravate noire de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 863, “Pic à cravate noire” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Black-breasted Woodpecker” of Latham 1782 (syn. Celeus torquatus).
● ex “Varied Shrike” of Latham 1822 (Chlorophoneus).
● ex “Petite Sarcelle de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (?syn. Dendrocygna sp.).
● ex “Red-bellied Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Petroica).
● ex “Figuier noir et jaune de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 391, fig. 2, “Figuier noir” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous and black Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “White-collared Parrot” of Latham 1781 (syn. Trichoglossus moluccanus).
● ex “Harlequin Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Many-colored Bushshrike (multicolor)
SCI Name: Telophorus multicolor multicolor
multicolor
L. multicolor, multicoloris  multi-coloured, many coloured  < multus  many; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Pic à cravate noire de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 863, “Pic à cravate noire” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Black-breasted Woodpecker” of Latham 1782 (syn. Celeus torquatus).
● ex “Varied Shrike” of Latham 1822 (Chlorophoneus).
● ex “Petite Sarcelle de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (?syn. Dendrocygna sp.).
● ex “Red-bellied Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Petroica).
● ex “Figuier noir et jaune de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 391, fig. 2, “Figuier noir” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous and black Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “White-collared Parrot” of Latham 1781 (syn. Trichoglossus moluccanus).
● ex “Harlequin Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (unident.).

Many-colored Bushshrike (batesi)
SCI Name: Telophorus multicolor batesi
batesi / batesiana
● George Latimer Bates (1863-1940) US planter, ornithologist, collector in Gabon, French Congo and the Cameroons 1895-1928 (syn. Accipiter erythropus, syn. Alcedo leucogaster, Apus, subsp. Aviceda cuculoides, syn. Baeopogon indicator, syn. Batis minor erlangeri, syn. Campethera punctuligera, syn. Canirallus oculeus, Caprimulgus, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, syn. Dendropicos obsoletus, subsp. Dryotriorchis spectabilis, syn. Euplectes axillaris bocagei, subsp. Geokichla princei, syn. Hieraaetus ayresii, subsp. Iduna natalensis, subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri, syn. Lanius meridionalis elegans, syn. Merops muelleri, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Muscicapa sethsmithi, subsp. Oreocossypha isabellae, Ploceus, syn. Sarothrura pulchra, syn. Spizaetus africanus, syn. Sylvietta denti, Terpsiphone, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).
● Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist, entomologist who developed the theory of Batesian mimicry, explorer and collector in Amazonia 1848-1859 (subsp. Melidectes ochromelas).

Many-colored Bushshrike (graueri)
SCI Name: Telophorus multicolor graueri
graueri
Rudolf Grauer (1871-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa 1904-1911 (subsp. Asio abyssinicus, Bradypterus, Ceblepyris, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, subsp. Cinnyris stuhlmanni, subsp. Crithagra striolata, subsp. Dyaphorophyia ansorgei, syn. Estrilda atricapilla kandti, subsp. Euschistospiza cinereovinacea, subsp. Geokichla camaronensis, syn. Otus senegalensis, subsp. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus, syn. Ploceus cucullatus, syn. Polyboroides typus, subsp. Prinia subflava, Pseudocalyptomena, subsp. Turdus pelios).