Pink-headed Warbler

SCI Name:  Cardellina versicolor
Protonym:  Cardellina versicolor Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.188 pl.24 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Cardellina
Taxonomy Code:  pihwar1
Type Locality:  Volcan de Fuego, Totonicapam, and Chilasco, Guatemala; type from Chilasco, fide Hellmayr, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 8, p. 475.
Author:  Salvin
Publish Year:  1863
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARDELLINA
(Parulidae; Ϯ Red-faced Warbler C. rubrifrons) Dim. < Italian dialect name Cardella for a Goldfinch  < L. cardella or cardellus  Goldfinch (in allusion to the red face) (see Carduelis); "*665. Cardellina, Dubus.  Rostrum breve, subulatum, robustum, basi valde plumatum, vibrissis rigidis: pedes graciles, digitis brevibus: alae longae, subrotundatae; remige prima quintam subaequante; secunda tertia et quarta omnium longissimis: cauda longula, emarginata. Ad Tanagrinas quam maxime accedit et potius pertinet!   Mexico.  2.    *1. Cardellina amicta, Dubus. (Parus erythropis, Licht.) Esq. Orn. 1850. t.25. Mus. Bruxell. et Berol. ex Mexico.   ...   2. SETOPHAGA rubra, Sw. 1827. (miniata, Lafr. - Sylvia argyrotis, Illig.) Mag. Zool. 1836. Ois. t. 54. ex Mexic." (Bonaparte 1850); "Cardellina Bonaparte (ex Du Bus MS), 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 312. Type, by subsequent designation (Baird, 1865, Rev. Amer. Birds, 1, p. 263), Cardellina amicta Du Bus = Muscicapa rubrifrons Giraud." (Lowery & Monroe in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 51).
Synon. Ergaticus.

versicolor
L. versicolor, versicoloris  of various colours  < vertere  to change; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Perroquet de La Havane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 360 (Amazona).
● ex “Barbu des Maynas” of Brisson 1760 (Eubucco).
● ex “Perruche à gorge tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 144, “Perruche, no. 2” of Fermin 1769, “Perruche à gorge variée” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Wave-breasted Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (syn. Pyrrhura picta).
● ex "Pato pico de tres colores" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 440 (Spatula).
● ex “Variable Crow” of Latham 1801 (Strepera).