Brown-winged Schiffornis

SCI Name:  Schiffornis turdina
Protonym:  Muscicapa turdina Beitr.Naturgesch.Brasil. 3 p.817
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tityridae / Schiffornis
Taxonomy Code:  thlsch3
Type Locality:  eastern Brazil; type from Bahia, fide Hellmayr, 1929, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 6, p. 79.
Author:  zu Wied
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SCHIFFORNIS
(Tityridae; † Brown-winged Schiffornis S. turdina) Prof. Dr Moriz Schiff (1823-1896) German biologist, surgeon in the Baden revolution 1849, pioneer anatomist and endocrinologist, physiologist, Prof. of Comparative Anatomy Univ. of Bern 1854-1863, Prof. of Physiology Istituto di Studii Superiori, Florence 1863-1876, Prof. of Physiology Univ. of Geneva 1876-1896; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Massornis); "34. SCHIFFORNIS, Bp. —  74. major, Bp. — 75. turdina, Wied. — 76. minor, Schiff." (Bonaparte 1854); "Schiffornis Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 314 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 4).  Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa turdina Wied." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 246).  Formerly known as the Thrush-like Schiffornis or Thrush-like Manakin, the Brown-winged Schiffornis or Mourner is not particularly thrush-like, and has been variously allied to the manakins Pipridae, to the cotingas Cotingidae, or, more recently, to the tityras Tityridae.  
Var. Schifformis, Shiffornis.
Synon. Heteropelma, Massornis, Scotothorus.
• (Tityridae; syn. Schiffornis † Varzea Schiffornis S. major) "GENRE SCHIFFORNIS. — Schiffornis (Pr. Ch. Bonaparte).   SCHIFFORNIS GÉANT. — Schiffornis major (Pr. Ch. Bonap., Ateneo Italiano, Ag. 1854).  (PLANCHE XVIII, fig. 2.)   Sch. supra cinereo-brunnescens; tergo alisque brunneo-rufescentibus; subtus rufo-cinnamomeo; uropygio rectricibusque concoloribus.  Rostro pedibusque nigris." (des Murs 1856); "Schiffornis (not of BONAPARTE, 1854) DES MURS in CASTELNAU, Expéd. Amér. Sud, Ois., livr. 18, p. 66— June, 1856— type by monotypy Schiffornis major DES MURS.   ...   Schiffornis major BONAPARTE (Ateneo Italiano, 2, No. 11, p. 314, 1854; Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 4, 1854) is a nomen nudum." (Hellmayr, 1929, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VI, p. 77).

turdina / turdinea / turdineum / turdineus
Mod. L. turdinus or turdineus  thrush-like  < L. turdus  thrush.

SUBSPECIES

Brown-winged Schiffornis (Amazonian)
SCI Name: Schiffornis turdina amazonum
amazonius / amazonum / amazonus
Mod. L. Amazonus Amazonian, of Amazonia.

Brown-winged Schiffornis (Brown-winged)
SCI Name: Schiffornis turdina [turdina Group]
SCHIFFORNIS
(Tityridae; † Brown-winged Schiffornis S. turdina) Prof. Dr Moriz Schiff (1823-1896) German biologist, surgeon in the Baden revolution 1849, pioneer anatomist and endocrinologist, physiologist, Prof. of Comparative Anatomy Univ. of Bern 1854-1863, Prof. of Physiology Istituto di Studii Superiori, Florence 1863-1876, Prof. of Physiology Univ. of Geneva 1876-1896; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Massornis); "34. SCHIFFORNIS, Bp. —  74. major, Bp. — 75. turdina, Wied. — 76. minor, Schiff." (Bonaparte 1854); "Schiffornis Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 314 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 4).  Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa turdina Wied." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 246).  Formerly known as the Thrush-like Schiffornis or Thrush-like Manakin, the Brown-winged Schiffornis or Mourner is not particularly thrush-like, and has been variously allied to the manakins Pipridae, to the cotingas Cotingidae, or, more recently, to the tityras Tityridae.  
Var. Schifformis, Shiffornis.
Synon. Heteropelma, Massornis, Scotothorus.
• (Tityridae; syn. Schiffornis † Varzea Schiffornis S. major) "GENRE SCHIFFORNIS. — Schiffornis (Pr. Ch. Bonaparte).   SCHIFFORNIS GÉANT. — Schiffornis major (Pr. Ch. Bonap., Ateneo Italiano, Ag. 1854).  (PLANCHE XVIII, fig. 2.)   Sch. supra cinereo-brunnescens; tergo alisque brunneo-rufescentibus; subtus rufo-cinnamomeo; uropygio rectricibusque concoloribus.  Rostro pedibusque nigris." (des Murs 1856); "Schiffornis (not of BONAPARTE, 1854) DES MURS in CASTELNAU, Expéd. Amér. Sud, Ois., livr. 18, p. 66— June, 1856— type by monotypy Schiffornis major DES MURS.   ...   Schiffornis major BONAPARTE (Ateneo Italiano, 2, No. 11, p. 314, 1854; Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 4, 1854) is a nomen nudum." (Hellmayr, 1929, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VI, p. 77).