Lesser Elaenia / Elaenia chiriquensis

Lesser Elaenia / Elaenia chiriquensis

Lesser Elaenia

SCI Name:  Elaenia chiriquensis
Protonym:  Elainea chiriquensis Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 8(1867) p.176
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lesela1
Type Locality:  near David, Chiriqui, New Granada [= Panama] .
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Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos  of olive-oil, oleaginous  < ελαια elaia  olive; "Elænia n. g. 6)  Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd.  Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles.   ...    6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta.  Membrana narium plumulis tecta.  Vibrissæ tenues.  Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus.  Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis.  Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).  
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, ElanaElania.

chiriquensis / chiriquiquensis
Chiriquí Province, Panama.

SUBSPECIES

Lesser Elaenia (chiriquensis)
SCI Name: Elaenia chiriquensis chiriquensis
chiriquensis / chiriquiquensis
Chiriquí Province, Panama.

Lesser Elaenia (albivertex)
SCI Name: Elaenia chiriquensis albivertex
albivertex
L. albus  white; vertex, verticis  crown of the head.