The Key to Scientific Names
- Lioptilus
(Sylviidae; syn. Sylvia † Bush Blackcap S. nigricapillus) Gr. λειος leios smooth; πτιλον ptilon feather, plumage (cf. abbreviation of genus Ptilogonys Swainson, 1824, silky-flycatcher); "*716. Lioptilus, Caban. 1850. (Turdus, p. Gr.) Rostrum Ptilogonidis ! marginibus tenuibus, diaphanis. Africa. 1. TURDUS nigricapillus, Vieill. (T. cucullatus, Ill. - Gracula cucullata, Licht. - Lioptilus cucullatus, Caban.) Lev. Afr. t. 108. ex Afr. m." (Bonaparte 1850); "Gen. LIOPTILUS nov. gen. Meisen-Drössling. 492. 1. L. nigricapillus Nob. — Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. tab. 108. — Turdus nigricapillus Vieill. Encycl. pag. 656. No. 62. id. Gray Gen. Birds No. 93." (Cabanis 1853); "Lioptilus "Caban. 1850" = Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Gen. Av., 1 (1850), p. 332. Type, by monotypy, Turdus nigricapillus Vieillot." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 413).
- polioptila / polioptilus
- Gr. πολιος polios grey; πτιλον ptilon plumage.
