Black Phoebe

SCI Name:  Sayornis nigricans
Protonym:  Tyrannula nigricans Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.367
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Sayornis
Taxonomy Code:  blkpho
Type Locality:  tableland of Mexico; Valley of Mexico designated by Nelson, 1900, Auk. 17, p. 125.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SAYORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Black Phoebe S. nigricans) Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long's expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (cf. specific name Muscicapa saya Bonaparte, 1825); Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Les VOLUCRES MUSCIVORES nous offrent, parmi les Tyranniens si faciles à disposer en admirable parallélisme avec les Fluvicoliens réformés:   ...   Sayornis nigricans, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Sayornis Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 657. Type, by monotypy, Sayornis nigricans Bonaparte = Tyrannula nigricans Swainson." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 147).   
Synon. Aulanax, Empidias, Theromyias.

nigricans
L. nigricans, nigricantis  blackish, swarthy  < nigrare  to be black  < niger  black.
● ex “Suirirí chorrendo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 182 (syn. Hymenops perspicillata).
● ex “Ypacahá obscuro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 371 (Pardirallus).
● ex “Brunoir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 1 (Pycnonotus).
● ex “Tachurí obscurito menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 167 (Ridgwayornis).

SUBSPECIES

Black Phoebe (Northern)
SCI Name: Sayornis nigricans [nigricans Group]
SAYORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Black Phoebe S. nigricans) Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long's expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (cf. specific name Muscicapa saya Bonaparte, 1825); Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Les VOLUCRES MUSCIVORES nous offrent, parmi les Tyranniens si faciles à disposer en admirable parallélisme avec les Fluvicoliens réformés:   ...   Sayornis nigricans, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Sayornis Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 657. Type, by monotypy, Sayornis nigricans Bonaparte = Tyrannula nigricans Swainson." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 147).   
Synon. Aulanax, Empidias, Theromyias.

Black Phoebe (White-winged)
SCI Name: Sayornis nigricans latirostris/angustirostris
SAYORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Black Phoebe S. nigricans) Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long's expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (cf. specific name Muscicapa saya Bonaparte, 1825); Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Les VOLUCRES MUSCIVORES nous offrent, parmi les Tyranniens si faciles à disposer en admirable parallélisme avec les Fluvicoliens réformés:   ...   Sayornis nigricans, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Sayornis Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 657. Type, by monotypy, Sayornis nigricans Bonaparte = Tyrannula nigricans Swainson." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 147).   
Synon. Aulanax, Empidias, Theromyias.