Black-faced Grosbeak

SCI Name:  Caryothraustes poliogaster
Protonym:  Pitylus poliogaster Bull.Acad.R.Sci.Brux. 14 pt2 p.105
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Caryothraustes
Taxonomy Code:  blfgro1
Type Locality:  Guatemala.
Author:  Du Bus
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARYOTHRAUSTES
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Yellow-green Grosbeak C. canadensis) Gr. καρυον karuon  nut; φραυστης thraustēs  breaker, crusher  < φραυω thrauō  to break. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVIII, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae Coccothraustinae, highlights the stout and powerful bill and the face-pattern of this grosbeak. "Caryothraustes Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 78. Type, by subsequent designation (Sclater and Salvin, 1869, Exotic Ornith., p. 167), "Pitylus" [= Coccothraustes] viridis Vieillot = Loxia canadensis Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 224). In describing Loxia canadensis with "Habitat in Canada"  Linnaeus, 1766, or his printer, misquoted Brisson's 1760, "Coccothraustes Cayanensis  ...  Habitat in Cayana."
Synon. Periporphyrus, Rhodothraupis.

poliogaster / poliogastra / poliogastris / poliogastrus
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.

SUBSPECIES

Black-faced Grosbeak (poliogaster)
SCI Name: Caryothraustes poliogaster poliogaster
poliogaster / poliogastra / poliogastris / poliogastrus
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.

Black-faced Grosbeak (scapularis)
SCI Name: Caryothraustes poliogaster scapularis
scapularis
Mod. L. scapularis  shoulder, scapular  < Med. L. scapulare  scapula, shoulder cloak, mantle  < Late L. scapula  shoulder  < L. scapulae   shoulders.
● ex “Tabuan Parrot” of Phillips 1789, and Latham 1802 (Alisterus).
● ex “Garza cuello pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 358 (syn. Butorides striata).
● ex “Gobe Mouches Mantelé” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 151 (syn. Trochocercus cyanomelas).