Philippine magpie-robin explained

The Philippine magpie-robin (Copsychus mindanensis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.It is endemic to the Philippines. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Oriental magpie-robin.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

The Philippine magpie-robin was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.[1] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[2] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Turdus mindanensis in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[3] The Philippine magpie-robin is now one of 12 species placed in the genus Copsychus that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1827.[4] [5] It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) but was promoted to species status based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2009.[5] [6] The species is monotypic.[5] The genus name Copsychus is from the Ancient Greek kopsukhos or kopsikhos for a "blackbird". The specific mindanensis comes from "Mindanao", the type locality.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de . Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon . 1775 . Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux . 6 . Paris . De L'Imprimerie Royale . 83–84 . Le merle de Mindanao . fr . https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42335081 .
  2. Book: Buffon . Georges-Louis Leclerc de . Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon . Martinet . François-Nicolas . François-Nicolas Martinet . Daubenton . Edme-Louis . Edme-Louis Daubenton . Daubenton . Louis-Jean-Marie . Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton . 1765–1783 . Merle de Mindanao . Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle . 7 . Paris . De L'Imprimerie Royale . Plate 627 Fig. 1 . https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35219079 .
  3. Book: Boddaert, Pieter . Pieter Boddaert . 1783 . Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés . Utrecht . 38, Number 627 Fig. 1 . fr .
  4. Book: Wagler, Johann Georg . Johann Georg Wagler . 1827 . Systema avium . la . Stuttgart . J.G. Cottae . 306 (Gracula) .
  5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Chats, Old World flycatchers . IOC World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 1 September 2019 .
  6. Sheldon . F.H. . Lohman . D.J. . Lim . H.C. . Zou . F. . Goodman . S.M. . Prawiradilaga . D.M. . Winker . K. . Brailem . T.M. . Moyle . R.G. . 2009 . Phylogeography of the magpie-robin species complex (Aves: Turdidae: Copsychus) reveals a Philippine species, an interesting isolating barrier and unusual dispersal patterns in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia . Journal of Biogeography . 36 . 6 . 1070–1083 . 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02087.x . 55529997 .
  7. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 117, 255 .

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