Dusky-faced Tanager

SCI Name:  Mitrospingus cassinii
Protonym:  Tachyphonus Cassinii Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 7 p.297
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mitrospingidae / Mitrospingus
Taxonomy Code:  duftan1
Type Locality:  Panama Railroad; type from Lion Hill, fide Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1080.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1861
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MITROSPINGUS
(Mitrospingidae; Ϯ Dusky-faced Tanager M. cassinii) Gr. μιτρα mitra  cap, head-dress; σπιγγος spingos  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "Genus Mitrospingus.  (Type, Tachyphonus cassini Lawrence.)  Related to Eucometis Sclater, but bill much longer (nearly as long as head), nostrils very different, wing more rounded, tarsus relatively longer, claws stronger, occipital feathers very short (instead of the reverse), and style of coloration very different." (Ridgway 1898).

cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, Leptotila, Mitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).

SUBSPECIES

Dusky-faced Tanager (costaricensis)
SCI Name: Mitrospingus cassinii costaricensis
costaricanum / costaricensis
Costa Rica (Spanish costa rica rich coast, from its supposed gold resources).

Dusky-faced Tanager (cassinii)
SCI Name: Mitrospingus cassinii cassinii
cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, Leptotila, Mitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).