Zappey's Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Cyanoptila cumatilis
Protonym:  Cyanoptila cumatilis Bull.Mus.Comp.Zool. 52 (8) p. 141
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyanoptila
Taxonomy Code:  zapfly1
Type Locality:  Ma-fu-ling, Hupeh, China.
Author:  Thayer & Bangs
Publish Year:  1909
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CYANOPTILA
(Muscicapidae; † Blue-and-white Flycatcher C. cyanomelana) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; πτιλον ptilon  plumage; "Cyanoptila, nobis .  I found this group on a Javanese [sic] Flycatcher, which is just intermediate (both in form and colouring) to the preceding [Niltava] and following [Stoporala] divisions, in neither of which it can be placed; and it thus illustrates the affinities of Niltava.  Its wings, however, are longer than in either, and more pointed, reaching fully half-way down the tail; and the beak is rather broader and flatter than in Niltava, but vertically deep, having the tomiæ much inflected: rictal bristles small and inconspicuous.  Rest as in Stoporala; the frontal feathers deflected from the base of the bill, without any of the reflex velvety plumes conspicuous in Niltava.    C. cyanomelanura, (Tem.)  Upper-parts deep Prussian-blue; the crown and shoulders of the wing ultramarine; and nearly half of the base of the tail pure white; lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast blue-black; belly and lower tail-coverts sullied white; and flanks brown." (Blyth 1847); "Cyanoptila Blyth, 1847, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 16, p. 124.  Type, by original designation, Muscicapa cyanomelana Temminck." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 354).
Var. Cyanoptyla.

cyanoptila
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; πτιλον ptilon plumage.

cumatilis
L. cumatilis  sea-coloured, blue  < Gr. κυμα kuma, κυματος kumatos  wave.