Long-tailed Tyrant

SCI Name:  Colonia colonus
Protonym:  Muscicapa colonus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 21 p.448
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Colonia
Taxonomy Code:  lottyr1
Type Locality:  Paraguay.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COLONIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Long-tailed Tyrant C. colonus) Based on "NÚM. CLXXX.  EL COLON." of de Azara 1805, and specific name Muscicapa colonus Vieillot, 1818; "Platyrhynchus Leucophaius, Vieil.  Body above brown, yellow beneath, white streaked.  S. America.  In others, the tail is uneven, and the two central feathers are much the longest. The subgenus, Colonia, gray, peculiar to South America.   Peruvian Flycatcher, Lath. H. t. 102.  Muscicapa Colonus, Vieil.  M. Monacha, Freyr. Licht.  Platyrhynchus Filicauda, Spix, Braz. ij. t. 14.  La Colon, Azara, n. 180.  Platyrhynchus Platurus, Vieil.   Black, crown gray; forehead and rump white; length nine inches; young middle feathers shorter.   Bahia." (J. Gray 1827); "Colonia J. E. Gray, in Cuvier and Griffith, 1827, Animal Kingdom, 6, p. 336. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa colonus Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 180).
Synon. Copurus.

colonus
L. colonus  farmer, rustic (e.g. with homely brown plumage; of the countryside); colonist, inhabitant  < colere  to cultivate.
● Spanish settlers’ name Colon given to the Long-tailed Tyrant in Paraguay and Argentina; ex “El Colon” of de Azara 1805, no. CLXXX (Colonia).

SUBSPECIES

Long-tailed Tyrant (leuconota)
SCI Name: Colonia colonus leuconota
leuconota
Gr. λευκος leukos white; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.

Long-tailed Tyrant (fuscicapillus)
SCI Name: Colonia colonus fuscicapillus
fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus  dusky, brown; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.

Long-tailed Tyrant (poecilonota)
SCI Name: Colonia colonus poecilonota
poecilonota / poecilonotos / poecilonotus
Gr. ποικιλονωτος poikilonōtos  with variegated back  < ποικιλος poikilos  variegated; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

Long-tailed Tyrant (niveiceps)
SCI Name: Colonia colonus niveiceps
niveiceps
L. niveus  snow-white  < nix, nivis  snow; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Long-tailed Tyrant (colonus)
SCI Name: Colonia colonus colonus
colonus
L. colonus  farmer, rustic (e.g. with homely brown plumage; of the countryside); colonist, inhabitant  < colere  to cultivate.
● Spanish settlers’ name Colon given to the Long-tailed Tyrant in Paraguay and Argentina; ex “El Colon” of de Azara 1805, no. CLXXX (Colonia).