Cinnamon Tanager

SCI Name:  Schistochlamys ruficapillus
Protonym:  Saltator ruficapillus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 14 p.108
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Schistochlamys
Taxonomy Code:  cintan1
Type Locality:  l''Amerique meridionale; Rio de Janeiro designated by Hellmayr, 1920, Verh. Ornith. Ges. Bayern, 14, p. 282.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SCHISTOCHLAMYS
(Thraupidae; † Cinnamon Tanager S. ruficapillus capistrata) Late L. schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split; Gr. χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos  mantle, cloak.  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the distinctive small mask of the Cinnamon Tanager; "Gen. SCHISTOCHLAMYS Reichb. 1850. Graumantel.  Diucopis (!) Bonap. pt." (Cabanis 1851); G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 73, gives Tanagra fasciata Lichtenstein, 1823 (now in Neothraupis) as the type, but Reichenbach's figure is clearly not that form; "Schistochlamys Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77.  Type, by subsequent designation (P. L. Sclater, 1886, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 11, p. 301), Tanagra capistrata Wied." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 247).
Synon. Diucopis.

schistochlamys
Late L. schistus  slate  < L. lapis schistos  fissile stone  < Gr. σχιστος skhistos  cloven  < σχιζω skhizō  to split; Gr. χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos  mantle, cloak.

ruficapilla / ruficapillum / ruficapillus
L. rufus  red, ruddy, rufous; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.
● ex “Tutu” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 52, and “Motmot Oranroux” of Levaillant 1806 < French orange orange; roux red (Baryphthengus).
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Rousse-Tête” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 124 (syn. Cisticola fulvicapillus).
● ex “Ficedula martinicana” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bloody-side Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (subsp. Dendroica petechia).
● ex “Tachurí corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 164 (syn. Euscarthmus meloryphus).
● ex “Suirirí cabeza y rabadilla de canela” (= ♀) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 178 (syn. Knipolegus cyanirostris).
● ex “Guêpier Rousse Tête” or “Guêpier Bonelli” of Levaillant 1814, pl. 19 (syn. Merops superciliosus).
● ex “Ortolan de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 158, fig. 1 (syn. Zonotrichia leucophrys).