Red-throated Alethe

SCI Name:  Chamaetylas poliophrys
Protonym:  Alethe poliophrys Bull.Br.Orn.Club 13 p.10
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Chamaetylas
Taxonomy Code:  retale1
Type Locality:  Ruwenzori.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1902
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHAMAETYLAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Brown-chested Alethe C. poliocephala compsonota) Gr. χαμαι khamai  on the ground; τυλας tulas, τυλαδος tulados  thrush; "A plump, upright, long-legged bird of the forest floor and low undergrowth" (Keith et al. (eds.) 1992); "Die Annahme einer ächten Geocichla in Africa scheint uns doch kaum zulässig, obgleich Cassin dieselbe mit Geocichla interpres Bp. (Turdus interpres Temm. Pl. col. 458) von den Sunda-Inseln vergleicht, wir möchlen desshalb für diese schöne Art lieber den Namen Chamaetylas compsonota (von χαμαι = humi und τυλας = turdus) vorschlagen." (Heine 1860); "Chamaetylas Heine, 1859, Journ. f. Orn., 7, p. 425. Type, by monotypy, Geocichla compsonota Cassin" (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 61).
Synon. Pseudalethe.

poliophrys
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.

SUBSPECIES

Red-throated Alethe (poliophrys)
SCI Name: Chamaetylas poliophrys poliophrys
poliophrys
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.

Red-throated Alethe (kaboboensis)
SCI Name: Chamaetylas poliophrys kaboboensis
kaboboensis
Mt. Kabobo, north of Albertville, Belgian Congo / Mt. Misotshi-Kabogo, DR Congo.