Laniarius Ruficeps Bird

English Name:  Red-naped Bushshrike
Latin Name:  Laniarius ruficeps
Protonym:  Dryoscopus ruficeps Ibis p.402 pl.10
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Laniarius
Taxonomy Code:  renbus1
Type Locality:  Somaliland; type from Burao, 70 miles south of Berbera (Shelley, 1912, Birds Afr., 5, p. 299).
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LANIARIUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Yellow-crowned Gonolek L. barbarus) Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; "128. GONOLEK, Laniarius.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec nu à la base, un peu grêle, convexe en dessus, droit, comprimé; mandibule supérieure échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes à penne bâtarde; le deux^e. remige la plus longue.   Esp. Gonolek, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Laniarius Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, "Gonolek" Buffon = Lanius barbarus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 326).
Var. Lanairius, Lanarius, Lanirius.
Synon. Diplophoneus, Pelecinius, Rhynchastatus, Thamnocataphus.

ruficeps
L. rufus  red, ruddy; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (syn. Chrysomus ruficapillus).

SUBSPECIES

Red-naped Bushshrike (rufinuchalis)
Latin Name: Laniarius ruficeps rufinuchalis
rufinuchalis
L. rufus  rufous; Mod. L. nuchalis  naped  < Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

Red-naped Bushshrike (ruficeps)
Latin Name: Laniarius ruficeps ruficeps
ruficeps
L. rufus  red, ruddy; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (syn. Chrysomus ruficapillus).

Red-naped Bushshrike (kismayensis)
Latin Name: Laniarius ruficeps kismayensis
kismayensis
Kismayu, Jubaland, Italian Somaliland / Somalia.