Elminia Albonotata Bird

English Name:  White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Elminia albonotata
Protonym:  Trochocercus albonotatus Ibis p.121
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Elminia
Taxonomy Code:  wtcfly1
Type Locality:  Mt. Elgon.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1891
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ELMINIA
(Stenostiridae; Ϯ African Blue-flycatcher E. longicauda) St Georges d’Elmina, a port on the Dutch Gold Coast (= Ghana); "Subf. 111. MYIAGRINÆ.  ...  106. Elminia, Bp.   ...   Elminia, Bp., est établi pour l'espèce bleue, Myiagra longicauda, Sw., Flycatchers, t. 25, dont Hartlaub fait bien à tort une Muscipeta." (Bonaparte 1854); "Elminia Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, 38, p. 652 (nomen nudum on p. 388). Type, by original designation, Myiagra longicauda Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 467).
Synon. Erannornis.

albonotata / albonotatus
L. albus  white; notatus  marked  < notare  to mark  < nota  mark  < noscere  to know.

SUBSPECIES

White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher (albonotata)
Latin Name: Elminia albonotata albonotata
albonotata / albonotatus
L. albus  white; notatus  marked  < notare  to mark  < nota  mark  < noscere  to know.

White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher (subcaerulea)
Latin Name: Elminia albonotata subcaerulea
subcaerulea / subcaeruleum / subcaeruleus
L. succaeruleus or subcaeruleus  somewhat blue, bluish  < sub  somewhat; caeruleus  blue.
● ex “Falco subcerulius” of Bartram 1791 (syn. Ictinia misisippiensis).
● ex “Grignet” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 126 (Sylvia).

White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher (swynnertoni)
Latin Name: Elminia albonotata swynnertoni
swynnertoni
Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton (1877-1938) English settler and farm manager in Southern Rhodesia 1897-1919, first game warden in Tanganyika 1919-1928, Director of Tsetse Research 1928-1938 (subsp. Elminia albonotata, syn. Pternistis afer humboldtii, Swynnertonia, subsp. Turdus olivaceus).