Copsychus Pyrropygus Bird

English Name:  Rufous-tailed Shama
Latin Name:  Copsychus pyrropygus
Protonym:  Trichixos pyrropyga Rev.Zool. 2 p.167
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Copsychus
Taxonomy Code:  rutsha2
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

COPSYCHUS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Oriental Magpie Robin C. saularis) Gr. κοψυχος kopsukhos or κοψιχος kopsikhos  blackbird; "Gracula Saularis Gmel., Lath., Turdus mindanensis Gmel., Lath., Turdus amoenus Horsf., Lanius musicus Raffl., Lanius Shalaris Vieill. *)   ...   *) Constituo ex hac ave genus distinctum Copsychum (Kοψυχος  merula).  Ad hoc accedunt species: Lanius jocosus (idem qui Lanius Emeria Edw. 4. t. 190. fig. e specimine manco.) — Turdus macrurus (Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. 3. t. 114.) — Turdus melanicterus Vieill. N. D. 20. p. 267. (Le Merle jaune huppé Levaill. l.c. t. 117.)" (Wagler 1827); "Copsychus Wagler, 1827, Syst. Av., note to art. Gracula, p. 306. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, ed. 1, p. 21), Gracula saularis Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 64).
Var. Copsychum.
Synon. Copsicus, Dahila, Gervaisia, Gryllivora, Polypeira.

pyrropyga / pyrropygus
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire;
-πυγος -pugos  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.