Green-tailed Warbler

SCI Name:  Microligea palustris
Protonym:  Ligea palustris Auk 1 p.1 pl.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Phaenicophilidae / Microligea
Taxonomy Code:  grtwar1
Type Locality:  Santo Domingo; restricted to Villa River, Dominican Repubhc, by Wetmore and Swales, 1931, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 155, p. 394.
Author:  Cory
Publish Year:  1884
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MICROLIGEA
(Phaenicophilidae; Ϯ Green-tailed Warbler M. palustris) Gr. μικρος mikros  little; L. ligea  wood-nymph, dryad  < Gr. λιγυς ligus, λιγεια ligeia  nightingale, clear-voiced (cf. genus Ligea Cory, 1884, warbler); "As I find the generic name Ligea, proposed by me for a Sylvicoline bird from Haiti in the January number of 'The Auk' (p. 1), is preoccupied in zoölogy, I propose to substitute therefor the name Microligea (μικρος, Λιγεια, in the sense of little wood-nymph). The single known species will therefore stand as Microligea palustris." (Cory 1884).
Var. Microligia, Microlegia.
Synon. Ligea.

paluster / palustrae / palustre / palustris
L. paluster, palustris  marshy  < palus, paludis  swamp, marsh.
● ex “Parus palustris” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Marsh-Titmouse” or “Black-Cap” of Ray 1713, “Black Cap” of Albin 1738, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, dorso cinereo” of Linnaeus 1746 (Poecile).
● ex “Tordo guirahuró” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 64 (syn. Pseudoleistes guirahuro).
● ex “Hirondelle de Marais” or “Brunette” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 246, fig. 2 (syn. Riparia paludicola).

SUBSPECIES

Green-tailed Warbler (palustris)
SCI Name: Microligea palustris palustris
paluster / palustrae / palustre / palustris
L. paluster, palustris  marshy  < palus, paludis  swamp, marsh.
● ex “Parus palustris” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Marsh-Titmouse” or “Black-Cap” of Ray 1713, “Black Cap” of Albin 1738, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, dorso cinereo” of Linnaeus 1746 (Poecile).
● ex “Tordo guirahuró” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 64 (syn. Pseudoleistes guirahuro).
● ex “Hirondelle de Marais” or “Brunette” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 246, fig. 2 (syn. Riparia paludicola).

Green-tailed Warbler (vasta)
SCI Name: Microligea palustris vasta
vasta
L. vastus  desert, waste, empty.