Black-chested Mountain-Tanager

SCI Name:  Cnemathraupis eximia
Protonym:  Tanagra eximia Rev.Zool. 3 p.66
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Cnemathraupis
Taxonomy Code:  bcmtan1
Type Locality:  Santa-Fe de Bogota [, Colombia].
Author:  Boissonneau
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CNEMATHRAUPIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Black-chested Mountain Tanager C. eximia) Gr. κνημα knēma, κνηματος knēmatos  comb  < κναω knaō  to scrape; θραυπις thraupis  unknown small bird, perhaps a finch. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "Cnemathraupis gen. nov.  Type.—Tanagra eximia Boissonneau.  Characters.—Bill similar to that of Buthraupis, but shorter; width at base less than depth and about equal to length of maxilla from nostril; length of maxilla from nostril about equal to or less than one half the distance from angle of mouth to tip; gonys strongly ascending and ridged terminally; nostrils less exposed than in Buthraupis.  Wing not so long as in Buthraupis, very little more than three and one half times the length of the tarsus; not so pointed, second (from outside) to seventh primaries longest, the first longer than the eighth (or ninth).  Tail comparatively longer than in Buthraupis, from three fourths to four fifths the length of the wing.  ...  Remarks:—Ridgway [1902] has suggested that the ridged condition of the gonys might be of generic importance.  This character, however, is found to be rather variable, being more pronounced in some specimens of C. e. chloronota than in others." (Penard 1919); "Cnemathraupis Penard,¹ Auk, 36, p. 538, 1919  ...  ¹ I do not see any necessity for the generic separation of T. eximia, the existing structural divergencies being, in my opinion, good specific characters." ((Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 190).
Var. Cnemothraupis.

eximia
L. eximius  select, distinguished  < eximere  to take away  < emere  to purchase.

SUBSPECIES

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (eximia)
SCI Name: Cnemathraupis eximia eximia
eximia
L. eximius  select, distinguished  < eximere  to take away  < emere  to purchase.

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (zimmeri)
SCI Name: Cnemathraupis eximia zimmeri
zimmeri
Dr John Todd Zimmer (1889-1957) US ornithologist, taxonomist (subsp. Amazilia lactea, subsp. Atlapetes semirufus, subsp. Cnemathraupis eximia, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Deconychura pallida, syn. Hemispingus superciliaris chrysophrys, subsp. Hemitriccus obsoletus, subsp. Metriopelia ceciliae, subsp. Microeca fascinans, subsp. Myrmotherula longipennis, syn. Piranga hepatica, Scytalopus, Synallaxis, syn. Thamnophilus stictocephalus, subsp. Tolmomyias flaviventris, syn. Tyrannus melancholicus).

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (chloronota)
SCI Name: Cnemathraupis eximia chloronota
chloronota
Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (cyanocalyptra)
SCI Name: Cnemathraupis eximia cyanocalyptra
cyanocalyptra
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; καλυπτρα kaluptra  veil, head-dress.