Terpsiphone Bedfordi Bird

Bedford\'s Paradise-Flycatcher / Terpsiphone bedfordi

Terpsiphone Bedfordi Bird

English Name:  Bedford's Paradise-Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Terpsiphone bedfordi
Protonym:  Trochocercus bedfordi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Terpsiphone
Taxonomy Code:  bepfly1
Type Locality:  Mawambi, eastern Congo Free State; altitude 3,000 feet.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1907
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

TERPSIPHONE
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Indian Paradise-flycatcher T. paradisi) Gr. τερψι terpsi  delighting in  < τερπω terpō  to delight; φονος phonos  murder (cf. φωνη phōnē  voice); "Muscipeta, Cuv. — Terpsiphöne, f.   Muscipeta zu ähnlich und ganz gleich bedeutend mit Muscicapa. — Terpsiphŏne (necando gaudens) — nicht Terpsiphōne (voce laeta), von ihrem schnellen, muntern Jagem nach Insekten und ihrem fröhlichen Wesen." (Gloger 1827); "Terpsiphone Gloger, 1827, in Froriep, Notizen, 16, col. 278. New name for Muscipeta Cuvier, 1817, preoccupied by Muscipeta Koch, 1816 = Acrocephalus Naumann, 1811." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 478-479).
Var. Terpsichore (Gr. myth. Terpsichore, the Muse of the dance; τερψιχορος terpsikhoros  delighting in the dance).
Synon. Callaeops, Monedula, Muscipeta, Neoxeocephus, Tchitrea, Xeocephus.

bedfordi
Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke of Bedford (1858-1940) sponsor of Ruwenzori Expedition, President of the Zoological Society of London 1899-1936, Trustee of British Museum 1906-1927 (syn. Bradypterus baboecala msiri, subsp. Pholidornis rushiae, subsp. Sitta europaea, Terpsiphone).