Blue-throated Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides Scientific name definitions

Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831, Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1(3):35. Type locality given as "Himalayas" (9 Vigors, N. A. (1831). Exhibition and description of Himalayan birds. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1(3):35-36 Close ).

Synonym:

Niltava Brevipes Hodgson, 1837, The India Review and Journal of Foreign Science and the Arts 2:650 (10 Hodgson, B. H. (1837). Indication of a new genus of Insessores, tending to connect the Sylviadæ and Muscicapidæ. India Review and Journal of Foreign Science and the Arts 2:650-652 Close ). Type locality listed as Nepal (11 Watson, G. E., M. A. Traylor, Jr., and E. Mayr (1986). Family Muscicapidae. In Check-List of Birds of the World: a Continuation of the Work of James L. Peters (E. Mayr and G. W. Cottrell, Editors), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. pp. 295-375 Close ).

Muscicapa rubecola Swainson, 1838, The Naturalist's Library 21:221 (11 Watson, G. E., M. A. Traylor, Jr., and E. Mayr (1986). Family Muscicapidae. In Check-List of Birds of the World: a Continuation of the Work of James L. Peters (E. Mayr and G. W. Cottrell, Editors), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. pp. 295-375 Close ).

Himalayas from northeastern Pakistan (Murree Hills) east to northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh and southern Assam hills south to Mizoram), southeastern Tibet, and western, northern, and northeastern Myanmar; non-breeding southern India (principally Western Ghats), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and southern Myanmar.

Described under Field Identification.

Cyornis rubeculoides rogersi Robinson and Kinnear, 1928, Novitates Zoologicae 34:233. Type locality given as "Aracan. Lat. 18°–19°. N. Long. 95° E." (12 Robinson, H. C., and N. B. Kinnear (1928). Notes on the genus Cyornis, Blyth. Novitates Zoologicae 34:231–261. Close ).

Southwestern Myanmar.

Subspecies rogersi male has upperparts slightly brighter, less deep blue, than nominate, side of head darker, darker orange-rufous on breast extends as triangle to center of throat (occasionally to base of bill), undertail coverts often tinged buffish. Female has warmer brown upperparts and deep or rich orange-rufous breast and flanks.