The Key to Scientific Names
- Aplocyornis
(Muscicapidae; syn. Cyornis † Pale Blue Flycatcher C. unicolor) Gr. ἁπλοος haploos plain, simple, true; genus Cyornis Blyth, 1843, flycatcher (AT; see Manuscript-names).
- CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris]. 1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson. Himalaya ... 2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female. Southern India and Malay countries. ... 3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574. ... Inhabits Central India.† ... † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XII, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1846, Genera of Birds, I, p. 264 (sub nom. Cynornis)), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831." (JAJ 2021 per Laurent Raty in litt.).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.- Olcyornis
(Muscicapidae; syn. Cyornis † Fulvous-chested Jungle-flycatcher C. olivaceus) Portmanteau of specific name Cyornis olivacea Hume, 1877; "Genus OLCYORNIS, gen. nov. Type, Cyornis olivacea Hume." (Stuart Baker 1930); "Olcyornis Stuart Baker, 1930, Fauna British India, 2nd ed., VII, p. 137. Type, by original designation, Cyornis olivacea Hume, 1877." (JAJ 2020).
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Scyornis (See: Scyrornis)
Scyrornis (Turdidae; syn. Sialia † Eastern Bluebird S. sialis) Gr. σκυρος skuros stucco, gypsum (i.e. blue and red mosaic); ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "Sialis (Latr., Neuropt.) bl. - Sialia (Sw. 8. arctica, Vogel Zw. Ampelis und Cinclus.): Scyrornis, N." (Gistel 1848); "Scyrornis Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Tierreichs für höhere Schulen, p. 8. New name for Sialia Swainson, 1827, considered preoccupied by Sialis Latreille, 1802 (Diptera)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Scyornis.
