Bridled Titmouse

SCI Name:  Baeolophus wollweberi
Protonym:  Lophophanes wollweberi Compt.Rend. 31 p.478
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae / Baeolophus
Taxonomy Code:  britit
Type Locality:  Zacatecas, Mexico.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BAEOLOPHUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Tufted Titmouse B. bicolor) Gr. βαιος baios  small, little; λοφος lophos  crest; "Von Lophophanes wird zu trennen sein, nicht nur wegen Abweichung der Haubenbildung, sondern auch durch stärken Schnabel, längere Flügel und stärkere Füsse:   Gen. Baeolophus n. gen. (βαιοσ, unbedeutend; λοφοσ, Schopf)  Typus: B. bicolor. — Parus bicolor Lin. Wils. Lophophanes bicolor Kaup." (Cabanis 1853); "Baeolophus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., 1, p. 91, 1851 [= 1853] —type, by orig. desig., Parus bicolor Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 70).
Var. Baelophus, Bacolophus.

wollweberi
Wollweber (fl. 1850) German traveller, collector in Mexico for the Darmstadt Mus. (see Mearns & Mearns 1992) (Aphelocoma, Baeolophus).

SUBSPECIES

Bridled Titmouse (vandevenderi)
SCI Name: Baeolophus wollweberi vandevenderi
vandevenderi
Dr Thomas Roger Van Devender (b. 1946) US herpetologist, botanist, palaeoecologist (subsp. Baeolophus wollweberi).

Bridled Titmouse (phillipsi)
SCI Name: Baeolophus wollweberi phillipsi
phillipsi / phillipsii
● Dr Allan Robert Phillips (1914-1996) US ornithologist, taxonomist, collector (subsp. Aimophila ruficeps, subsp. Baeolophus wollweberi, subsp. Cardinalis cardinalis, subsp. Catharus ustulatus, subsp. Certhia americana, subsp. Cochlearius cochlearius, subsp. Cyanocitta stelleri, syn. Icterus spurius, subsp. Pachysylvia decurtata, subsp. Setophaga petechia, Tangara).
● Maj. William Watt Addison Phillips (1892-1981) British tea-planter, naturalist in Ceylon (subsp. Alcedo meninting, syn. Ardeola grayii (Martin Schneider in litt.), subsp. Dumetia hyperythra, subsp. Treron phoenicopterus).
● Dr John Charles Phillips (1876-1938) US conservationist, ornithologist, philanthropist, world traveller (syn. Anthus correndera grayi, subsp. Turdus migratorius).
● Eponym; "Anthreptes collaris phillipsi new race.  ...   Type.—In the British Museum.  Female: Lofu River, Northern Rhodesia, collected by S. A. Neave, 17 August, 1908." (C. M. N. White 1950, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 70, 41); doubtless after either (1) Edwin Percy Phillips (1884-1967) South African botanist, taxonomist, or (2) Charles Malcolm Phillips (1918-1990) British surgeon, ophthalmologist in Northern Rhodesia (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Hedydipna collaris garguensis).
● Dr Benjamin Phillips (1805-1861) British physician, naturalist, bibliophile, friend of Audubon (syn. Leuconotopicus villosus).
● Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips (1857-1944) English businessman, explorer, big-game hunter in East Africa 1885-1895 (Oenanthe).

Bridled Titmouse (wollweberi)
SCI Name: Baeolophus wollweberi wollweberi
wollweberi
Wollweber (fl. 1850) German traveller, collector in Mexico for the Darmstadt Mus. (see Mearns & Mearns 1992) (Aphelocoma, Baeolophus).

Bridled Titmouse (caliginosus)
SCI Name: Baeolophus wollweberi caliginosus
caliginosa / caliginosus
L. caliginosus  dark, obscure, misty  < caligo, caliginis  fog.