Gray-barred Wren

SCI Name:  Campylorhynchus megalopterus
Protonym:  Campylorhynchus megalopterus Rev.Zool. 8 p.339
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Troglodytidae / Campylorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  grbwre1
Type Locality:  Mexico.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPYLORHYNCHUS
(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Thrush-like Wren C. turdinus) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved, bent  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "GENUS I. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS.  Turdinus; rostro longiusculo, arcuato, crassiusculo, ad basin latiusculo, versus apicem cylindrico; naribus ovatis, subbasalibus, non obtectis; digito postico reliquis crassiore; alis breviusculis; rictu oris usque ad oculos elongato.   SPECIES 1. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS SCOLOPACEUS.   ...   Habitat in sylvis Rio de Janeiro.   SPECIES 2. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS STRIOLATUS.   ...   Habitat in provincia Bahiae." (von Spix 1824); "Campylorhynchus Spix, 1824, Av. Brasil., 1, p. 77. Type, by subsequent designation, Opetiorhynchus turdinus Wied (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p.25. (Not preoccupied by Campylirhynchus "Mergerle", 1821.)" (Paynter in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 379).
Var. Kampilorynchus, Kampylorhynchus, Campilorhynchus.
Synon. Buglodytes, Heleodytes, Psalter.

megalopterus
Gr. μεγαλως megalōs  exceedingly  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; -πτερος -pteros -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (cf. μεγαλοπτερυγος megalopterugos  with large wings).

Megalopterus
Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; -πτερος -pteros -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (cf. μεγαλοπτερυγος megalopterugos  with large wings).
● (syn. Anous Ϯ Lesser Noddy A. tenuirostris) "Megalopterus: tenuirostris Tem. col. 202. u.s.w." (Boie 1826); "Megalopterus Boie, Isis, 1826, col. 980—type, by monotypy, Sterna tenuirostris Temminck." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 331).
● (syn. Lamprotornis Ϯ Burchell's Starling L. australis) "Sub-genus MEGALOPTERUS.  ...When flying, the wings appear out of proportion to the body, and give the appearance of a size to the bird which in reality it does not possess. In the movement of the wings there is also a marked difference between it and the smaller species of the genus." (A. Smith 1836).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-barred Wren (megalopterus)
SCI Name: Campylorhynchus megalopterus megalopterus
megalopterus
Gr. μεγαλως megalōs  exceedingly  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; -πτερος -pteros -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (cf. μεγαλοπτερυγος megalopterugos  with large wings).

Gray-barred Wren (nelsoni)
SCI Name: Campylorhynchus megalopterus nelsoni
nelsoni
• Dr Edward William Nelson (1855-1934) US zoologist, collector in US and Mexico, President of AOU 1908, and Chief of US Biological Survey 1916-1927 (subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, Ammospiza, syn. Antrostomus badius, subsp. Campephilus guatemalensis, subsp. Campylorhynchus megalopterus, subsp. Catharus frantzii, syn. Colinus virginianus insignis, subsp. Cyanocorax sanblasianus, syn. Dryobates pubescens medianus, subsp. Eupherusa eximia, Geothlypis, subsp. Habia rubica, subsp. Icterus cucullatus, subsp. Lagopus mutum, syn. Lanius ludovicianus mexicanus, syn. Larus vegae x L. hyperboreus hybrid, subsp. Lochmias nematura, syn. Myiarchus tyrannulus cooperi, syn. Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis, subsp. Onychoprion anaethetus, syn. Phaethornis striigularis subrufescens, subsp. Polioptila caerulea, subsp. Quiscalus mexicanus, subsp. Sialia mexicana, subsp. Sitta carolinensis, subsp. Tunchiornis ochraceiceps, Vireo (ex Vireo nanus Nelson, 1898)).
• George Nelson (1876-1962) US botanist, zoologist, photographer, taxidermist at MCZ, Harvard College 1901-1946 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Setophaga vitellina).