Brassy-breasted Tanager

SCI Name:  Tangara desmaresti
Protonym:  Tanagra Desmaresti Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 32 p.410
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  brbtan1
Type Locality:  Bresil [=Rio de Janeiro, fide Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 472],
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1819
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara  dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum.    Le genre du Tangara (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre.  ...  ** 1. LE TANGARA.  Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).   
Var. Tanara.   
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.

desmaresti / desmarestii
Anselme Gætan Desmarest (1784-1838) French zoologist (syn. Dicaeum hirundinaceum, subsp. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Platysteira cyanea ♀, Psittaculirostris, Tangara (ex “Tangara rouverdin, femelle” of Desmarest 1805), syn. Tangara viridissima (ex “Tanagra gyrola” of Swainson 1829)).