Boucard's Wren

SCI Name:  Campylorhynchus jocosus
Protonym:  Campylorhynchus jocosus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1859) (1859), Pt(27)3 p.371
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Troglodytidae / Campylorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  bouwre1
Type Locality:  Oaxaca, Mexico.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPYLORHYNCHUS
(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Thrush-like Wren C. turdinus) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved, bent  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "GENUS I. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS.  Turdinus; rostro longiusculo, arcuato, crassiusculo, ad basin latiusculo, versus apicem cylindrico; naribus ovatis, subbasalibus, non obtectis; digito postico reliquis crassiore; alis breviusculis; rictu oris usque ad oculos elongato.   SPECIES 1. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS SCOLOPACEUS.   ...   Habitat in sylvis Rio de Janeiro.   SPECIES 2. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS STRIOLATUS.   ...   Habitat in provincia Bahiae." (von Spix 1824); "Campylorhynchus Spix, 1824, Av. Brasil., 1, p. 77. Type, by subsequent designation, Opetiorhynchus turdinus Wied (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p.25. (Not preoccupied by Campylirhynchus "Mergerle", 1821.)" (Paynter in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 379).
Var. Kampilorynchus, Kampylorhynchus, Campilorhynchus.
Synon. Buglodytes, Heleodytes, Psalter.

jocosa / jocosus
L. iocosus  merry  < iocus  joke.
● "43. LANIUS.   ...   jocosus.  9. L. cauda integra, corpore griseo, palpebra inferiore purpurea, ano sanguineo. Amœn. acad. 4. p. . .  Habitat in China. Osbeck.  Caput nigrum. Gula alba. Abdomen albicans.  Rostrum rectius quam in reliquis, sed utrinque intra apicem enmarginatum." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pycnonotus).