Red-backed Scrub-Robin

SCI Name:  Cercotrichas leucophrys
Protonym:  Sylvia leucophrys Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 11 p.191
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code:  rbsrob1
Type Locality:  Gamtoos River, eastern Cape Province, ex Levaillant, 1802, Oiseaux Afrique, 3, pi. 118, ''Le Grivetin.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.

leucophrys
Gr. λευκοφρυς leukophrus, λευκοφρυος leukophruos  white-browed  < λευκος leukos  white; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow.
● ex “Pato ceja blanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 442 (Callonetta).
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 (Cercotrichas).

Leucophrys
(syn. Plocepasser Ϯ White-browed Sparrow Weaver P. mahali) Gr. λευκοφρυς leukophrus, λευκοφρυος leukophruos  white-browed  < λευκος leukos  white; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow; "Leucophrys, Sw.  Bill unequally conic; the sides not swollen; the tip entire. Nostrils naked, round  ...  L. pileatus. Part 5. No. 199" (Swainson 1837).

SUBSPECIES

Red-backed Scrub-Robin (White-winged)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas leucophrys [leucoptera Group]
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, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.

Red-backed Scrub-Robin (Red-backed)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas leucophrys [leucophrys Group]
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, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.