Pearly-eyed Thrasher

SCI Name:  Margarops fuscatus
Protonym:  Turdus fuscatus Hist.Nat.Ois.Am.Sept. 2(1807) p.1 pl.57
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Margarops
Taxonomy Code:  peethr1
Type Locality:  bis les grandes iles Antilles et particulierement a Porto-Ricco et a Saint-Domingue.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1808
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MARGAROPS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Pearly-eyed Thrasher M. fuscatus densirostris) Gr. μαργαρον margaron  pearl (cf. μαργαρος margaros  pearl-oyster); ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye; "MARGAROPS.  Cichlalopia, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1857, p.205, nec Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxviii. p. 6 (1854)   ...   Not being able to concur in Prince Bonaparte's transfer of his name Cichlalopia to this genus, I have used the term Margarops (μαργαρος et ωψ) — sc. "Pearly-eyed Thrush," as Messrs. Newton call it." (P. Sclater 1859).
Synon. Cichlalopia.

fuscatus
L. fuscatus dark  < fuscare  to darken  < fuscus  dark, black.
● ex “Hirondelle de Mer brune” of Brisson 1760; “Linnaeus’s S. fuscata ...is based on a young bird” (BOU 1915) (Onychoprion).

SUBSPECIES

Pearly-eyed Thrasher (fuscatus)
SCI Name: Margarops fuscatus fuscatus
fuscatus
L. fuscatus dark  < fuscare  to darken  < fuscus  dark, black.
● ex “Hirondelle de Mer brune” of Brisson 1760; “Linnaeus’s S. fuscata ...is based on a young bird” (BOU 1915) (Onychoprion).

Pearly-eyed Thrasher (densirostris)
SCI Name: Margarops fuscatus densirostris
densirostris
L. densus thick; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.

Pearly-eyed Thrasher (klinikowskii)
SCI Name: Margarops fuscatus klinikowskii
klinikowskii
Ronald Francis Klinikowski (1939-2008) US collector in the Caribbean (subsp. Margarops fuscatus).

Pearly-eyed Thrasher (bonairensis)
SCI Name: Margarops fuscatus bonairensis
bonairensis
Bonaire I., Netherlands Antilles.