Saffron-crowned Tanager

SCI Name:  Tangara xanthocephala
Protonym:  C.[allospiza] xanthocephala Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.285
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  sactan1
Type Locality:  Peru; Vitoc suggested by Zimmer, 1943, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1245, p. 9.
Author:  von Tschudi
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara  dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum.    Le genre du Tangara (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre.  ...  ** 1. LE TANGARA.  Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).   
Var. Tanara.   
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.

xanthocephala
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

SUBSPECIES

Saffron-crowned Tanager (venusta)
SCI Name: Tangara xanthocephala venusta
venusta
L. venustus  beautiful, lovely  < venus  loveliness.

Saffron-crowned Tanager (xanthocephala)
SCI Name: Tangara xanthocephala xanthocephala
xanthocephala
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

Saffron-crowned Tanager (lamprotis)
SCI Name: Tangara xanthocephala lamprotis
lamprotis
Gr. λαμπρος lampros  brilliant; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear (cf. λαμπροτης lamprotēs brilliance).