Somali Starling

SCI Name:  Onychognathus blythii
Protonym:  Amydrus blythii J.Orn. 7 no.1 p.32
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Onychognathus
Taxonomy Code:  somsta1
Type Locality:  Somaliland.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ONYCHOGNATHUS
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Chestnut-winged Starling O. fulgidus) Gr. ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw, nail; γναθος gnathos  jaw; "1. Onychognathus, Nob., n. gen.  Familia Sturnidæ, subfam.— Ptilonorhynchinæ, Gray.   Char. gen. rostrum (pl. 14, fig. 2). Capite longius, compressum, grypanium, aduncum, culmine arcuato, basi applanato-rotundato; apice acuto elongato uncinato.  Cauda valde gradata, elongata; rectrices angustæ debiles, apice rotundatæ.  Alæ mediocres, remige prima spuria; tertia, quarta et quinta cæteris longioribus, æqualibus; remiges tertiariæ (pl. 14, f. 3) et tectrices alæ majores structuram exhibent valde extraordinariam; pogonium externum fascia longitudinali holosericea in duo quasi dimidia dispertitur, quorum unum superius (sæpo proximum) ordinarium, alterum inferius decompositum, laxum, quasi fimbriatum dependet.  Pedes robusti, breves, digito interno et externo æqualibus; unguibus mediocribus, validis.   O. fulgidus, Nob.   ...   Habitat: île Saint-Thomé, golfe de Guinée." (Hartlaub 1849); "Onychognathus Hartlaub, 1849, Rev. Mag. Zool. (Paris), p. 494. Type, by monotypy, Onychognathus fulgidus Hartlaub." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 87).   
Var. Onychoramphus (Gr. ραμφος rhamphos  bill), Onychorhamphus, Onicognathus, Onycognathus, Onychognatus.   
Synon. Amydrus, Cinnamopterus, Galeopsar, Hagiopsar, Nabouroupus, Oligomydrus, Pilorhinus, Ptilonorhynchus, Pyrrhocheira.

blythi / blythii
Edward Blyth (1810-1873) English zoologist, Curator of Mus. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1841-1862, collector (syn. Alcippe poioicephala karenni, subsp. Carpodacus thura, subsp. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Ficedula westermanni collini, syn. Gorsachius melanolophus, syn. Micropternus brachyurus, Onychognathus, syn. Phoeniconaias minor, syn. Phoeniculus somaliensis, subsp. Prinia inornata, subsp. Psittaculirostris desmarestii, subsp. Sturnia malabarica, subsp. Sylvia curruca, Tragopan, subsp. Trochalopteron affine).