MacGillivray’s Warbler / Geothlypis tolmiei
WBN 
MacGillivray's Warbler
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvia Tolmiei Narr.Journ.RockyMts. p.343
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Parulidae / Geothlypis
Taxonomy Code: macwar
Type Locality: Columbia River [:= Fort Vancouver, Clarke County, Washington, fide Deignan, 1961, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 221, p. 542].
Author: Townsend, JK
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GEOTHLYPIS
(Parulidae; † Common Yellowthroat G. trichas) Gr. γεω- geō- ground-, earth- < γη gē earth; θλυπις thlupis unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch or warbler. In ornithology thlypis signifies either a thin-billed tanager or, as in this case, a parulid warbler; "Subfam. Sylvicolinae. 1. Geothlypis (Trichas Sws. nec Gloger). ... Gen. Trichas Gloger. Der Name Trichas wurde von Gloger im März 1827 an die Stelle von Criniger (!) Temm. gesetzt. Trichophorus Temm. ist später als Trichas Gloger vorgeschlagen. Für die Gattung Trichas Sws., April 1827 haben wir den Namen Geothlypis (Fam. Sylvicolidae) vorgeschlagen 1. Trichas barbata (Temm.). 2. T. gularis (Horsf.). 3. T. icterica (Strickl.). 4. T. flaveola (Gould). etc." (Cabanis 1847); "Geothlypis Cabanis, 1847, Archiv für Naturgesch., 13, pp. 316, 349. New name for Trichas Swainson, (June) 1827, preoccupied by Trichas Gloger, (March) 1827." (JAJ 2021) (see Trichas).
Var. Geothlipis.
Synon. Chamaethlypis, Frutiornis, Trichas.
tolmiei
Dr William Fraser Tolmie (1812-1886) Scottish doctor, explorer, collector, Hudson Bay Company official in western North America 1833-1860 (Geothlypis, syn. Haematopus bachmani).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
