Buff-bellied Puffbird / Notharchus swainsoni

Buff-bellied Puffbird / Notharchus swainsoni

Buff-bellied Puffbird

SCI Name:  Notharchus swainsoni
Protonym:  Bucco swainsoni Gen.Birds 1 p.76
Taxonomy:  Galbuliformes / Bucconidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bubpuf1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1846
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DEFINITIONS

NOTHARCHUS
(Bucconidae; Ϯ White-necked Puffbird N. hyperrhynchus) Gr. νωθης nōthēs  sluggish  < νωθευω nōtheuō  to be torpid; αρχος arkhos  leader, chief  < αρχω arkhō  to rule; "Gattung Notharchus Nob. (Tamatia Scl. & Bp., nec Cuv.)  ...  Gen. NOTHARCHUS*) Nob. — Riesen-Tamatia.   Tamatia (!) Scl. 1853 & Bp. 1854 (nec Cuv. 1817).   121.—2. N. Dysoni Nob.  ?Tamatia gigas Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 13. gen. 14. 64. — "Bucco Dysoni Gray in Mus. Brit." Scl. Proc. Z. Soc. 1855. p. 193. 2. & p. 196.   ...   122.—6. N. Swainsoni Nob.  Tamatia macrorhynchus Sws. (nec Gm.) Zool. Ill. II. t. 99.   ...   *) Wir stellen diese Riesenformen unter den Tamatia's an's Ende der Bartkuckuke und geben ihnen den neuen aus νωθης (träge) und αρχος (Herrscher) zusammengesetzten Namen Notharchus, da wir uns nicht zu Gray's Ansicht bekehren können, dass die cuvier'sche Benennung Tamatia für diese Gruppe zu adoptiren sei.   ...   Die übrigen unter einander meistens sehr nahe verwandete Arten dieses Genus sind:  1. N. hyperrhynchus Nob.   ...   3. N. macrorhynchus Nob.   ...   4. N. albicrissus Nob.   ...   5. N. napensis Nob.   ...   7. N. pectoralis Nob.   ...   8. N. Ordi Nob." (Cabanis & Heine 1863); "Notharchus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Th. 4, 1862-63 (1863), Heft 1, p. 146, 149. Type, by subsequent designation, Bucco hyperrhynchus Sclater. (Sclater, Monogr. Jacamars and Puff-birds, 1882 [Pt. VII], p. xxxv.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 10) (see Nothriscus).
Var. Notarchus.
Synon. Capito, Megacephalus, Nothriscus.

swainsoni / swainsonii
William Swainson (1789-1855) English naturalist, artist, collector (Buteo, syn. Campephaga flavaCatharus, Chlorostilbon, syn. Circus macrourus, syn. Coracina lineata, syn. Cossypha niveicapilla, syn. Criniger calurus verreauxi, syn. Doricha enicura, Gampsonyx, syn. Halcyon leucocephala pallidiventris, syn. Iduna caligataLimnothlypis, syn. Mackenziaena severa, syn. Momotus momota bahamensis, Myiarchus (ex “Suirirí pardo amarillo menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 193), syn. Myrmeciza longipes (ex Myrmothera longipes Swainson, 1825), subsp. Notharchus macrorhynchos, Onychorhynchus, syn. Pachyramphus marginatus, Passer, syn. Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, syn. Phigys solitarius, syn. Philohydor lictor, syn. Phylloscopus nitidus, Polytelis, Pternistis, syn. Ptilinopus regina, subsp. Ramphastos ambiguus, syn. Struthidea cinerea, syn. Tangara sayaca, syn. Thinocorus rumicivorus, syn. Trichoglossus moluccanus, syn. Turdoides jardineii, subsp. Vireo gilvus).