The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Chaimarrornis
(Muscicapidae; syn. Phoenicurus Ϯ White-capped Redstart P. leucocephalus) Gr. χειμαρρος kheimarrhos torrent; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "Keeps singly or in pairs, perching on boulders amidst torrents or rocky banks" (Ali & Ripley, 9, 1973); "Luscinidæ. ... Phænicura? leucocephala, (g. Chaimarrornis) [drawing no.] 297." (Hodgson 1844); "Chaimarrornis Hodgson, 1844, in Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 82. Type, by monotypy, Phoenicura leucocephala Vigors." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 132).
Var. Chaemarrornis, Chaemarrhornis, Chaemorrhornis, Chaemorrhous, Choemorrhous, Chimarrhornis, Chaemorhous, Choemarrhornis.
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