Buffy Tuftedcheek

SCI Name:  Pseudocolaptes lawrencii
Protonym:  Pseudocolaptes lawrencii Proc.U.S.Natl.Mus. 1 p.253,254
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Pseudocolaptes
Taxonomy Code:  buftuf1
Type Locality:  La Palma and Navarro, 3500-5000 feet, Costa Rica.
Author:  Ridgway
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PSEUDOCOLAPTES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Streaked Tuftedcheek P. boissonneautii auritus) Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false, another; κολαπτης kolaptēs  pecker  < κολαπτω kolaptō  to peck; "CXXIII. Pseudocolaptes RCHB. Nat. Syst. t. suppl.  ...  Kleid die Mitte haltend zwischen den Dendrocolaptinen und Cinclodes, von jenen entfernt durch das Verhältniß der Zehen, von diesen durch die schnurgerade Schnabelfirste.    *511. P. semicinnamomeus RCHB. t. DXXXIV. 3668.   ...   512. P. auritus (Anabates  — us  LICHTST. TSCHUDI peruv. 239.) RCHB.   ...   513. P. ? subulatus (Sphenura  — a  SPIX 82. t. 83.1.) RCHB. t. DXL. 3695." (Reichenbach 1853); "Pseudocolaptes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae. p. 148, 209. Type, by subsequent designation, Anabates auritus Lichtenstein i.e. Tschudi (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 28)." (Peters 1951, VII, 119).
Synon. Otipne.

lawrencii
George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus, syn. Gymnocichla nudiceps (ex Myrmelastes corvinus Lawrence, 1863), subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Margarobyas, syn. Mimus gilvus gracilis, syn. Nesoctites micromegas, syn. Pelagodroma marina (ex Thalassidroma fregetta Lawrence, 1852), subsp. Peucaea ruficauda, Pheugopedius, Pseudocolaptes, syn. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta, syn. Tachyphonus luctuosus (ex Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868), Turdus, syn. Vermivora pinus x chrysoptera, Zentrygon).

SUBSPECIES

Buffy Tuftedcheek (Buffy)
SCI Name: Pseudocolaptes lawrencii lawrencii
lawrencii
George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus, syn. Gymnocichla nudiceps (ex Myrmelastes corvinus Lawrence, 1863), subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Margarobyas, syn. Mimus gilvus gracilis, syn. Nesoctites micromegas, syn. Pelagodroma marina (ex Thalassidroma fregetta Lawrence, 1852), subsp. Peucaea ruficauda, Pheugopedius, Pseudocolaptes, syn. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta, syn. Tachyphonus luctuosus (ex Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868), Turdus, syn. Vermivora pinus x chrysoptera, Zentrygon).

Buffy Tuftedcheek (Pacific)
SCI Name: Pseudocolaptes lawrencii johnsoni
johnsoni / johnsonii
● George Randall Johnson (1833-1919) English lawyer, cricketer, collector in Australia 1866, politician resident in New Zealand ?1866-1892 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Casuarius casuarius).
● Dr David Horn Johnson (1912-1996) US zoologist, Smithsonian Curator of Mammals 1941-1965, collector (subsp. Caprimulgus macrurus).
● Prof. Ned Keith Johnson (1932-2003) US ornithologist (subsp. Heliangelus regalis).
● Dr Hilary Richard Wright Johnson (1837-1901) Liberian statesman, President 1884-1892 (subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri).
● Prof. Oscar Walter Johnson (b. 1935) and Patricia Mary Johnson (1934-2013) US ornithologists (syn. Pluvialis fulva).
● Axel Axelson Johnson (1876-1958) Swedish Consul-Gen. for Thailand 1911-1912 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (Pseudocolaptes, subsp. Pycnonotus flaviventris).