Buff-tailed Coronet

SCI Name:  Boissonneaua flavescens
Protonym:  Trochilus flavescens Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.15 p.7
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Boissonneaua
Taxonomy Code:  butcor1
Type Locality:  Popayan, Colombia.
Author:  Loddiges
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BOISSONNEAUA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Buff-tailed Coronet B. flavescens) Auguste Boissonneau (1802-1883) French ornithologist, natural history dealer, ocularist; "b. Ochrurae.  ...  *Boissonneaua flavescens (Tr. — LODD. 1832.) RCHB. — St. Fé de Bog." (Reichenbach 1854); "Boissonneaua Reichenbach, 1854, Journal für Ornithologie, I, Extraheft, Aufzählung der Colibris, p. 11.  Type, by monotypy, Trochilus flavescens Loddiges, 1832." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Boissonneauxia.
Synon. Alosia, Callidice, Galenia, Panoplites.

flavescens
L. flavescens, flavescentis  golden-yellowish  < flavescere  to become golden  < flavere  to be golden-yellow  < flavus  yellow, golden.
● ex “Yellow-crested Woodpecker” of Brown 1776, and Latham 1782 (Celeus).
● ex “Figuier du Sénégal” and “Figuier à ventre jaune du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 582, figs.1, 3, and de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Citron-bellied Warbler” of Latham 1783 (?syn. Eremomela pusilla).

SUBSPECIES

Buff-tailed Coronet (flavescens)
SCI Name: Boissonneaua flavescens flavescens
flavescens
L. flavescens, flavescentis  golden-yellowish  < flavescere  to become golden  < flavere  to be golden-yellow  < flavus  yellow, golden.
● ex “Yellow-crested Woodpecker” of Brown 1776, and Latham 1782 (Celeus).
● ex “Figuier du Sénégal” and “Figuier à ventre jaune du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 582, figs.1, 3, and de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Citron-bellied Warbler” of Latham 1783 (?syn. Eremomela pusilla).

Buff-tailed Coronet (tinochlora)
SCI Name: Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora
tinochlora
Gr. τεινω teinō  to spread; χλωρος khlōros  green.