Say's Phoebe

SCI Name:  Sayornis saya
Protonym:  Muscicapa saya Am.Orn.[Bonaparte] 1 p.20 pl.11 fig.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Sayornis
Taxonomy Code:  saypho
Type Locality:  Arkansaw River, ca. 20 miles from Rocky Mountains; near Pueblo, Colorado, fide Amer. Ornith. Union, 1931, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, p. 206.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SAYORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Black Phoebe S. nigricans) Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long's expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (cf. specific name Muscicapa saya Bonaparte, 1825); Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Les VOLUCRES MUSCIVORES nous offrent, parmi les Tyranniens si faciles à disposer en admirable parallélisme avec les Fluvicoliens réformés:   ...   Sayornis nigricans, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Sayornis Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 657. Type, by monotypy, Sayornis nigricans Bonaparte = Tyrannula nigricans Swainson." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 147).   
Synon. Aulanax, Empidias, Theromyias.

saya
Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long’s Expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (Sayornis).

Suya
(syn. Prinia Ϯ Striated Prinia P. crinigera) Nepalese name Súya for the Striated Prinia; "6th Species.  Subgenus, PRINIA? SUYA, nobis.  ...  Type and species new ?PRINIA? CRINIGER, nobis.  SUYA CRINIGER, nobis.  Súya of the Nipalese.   ...   The whole of the above species are distinguished, in common, by hard, entire, compressed bills, feeble wings, gradated tails, and stout ambulatory legs and feet.  The structure of their stomachs, intestines and tongues, too, is similar, as are their food and customary haunts.  ...  The Súyæ are calculated to remind the student, in various ways, of Malurus, Megalurus and Synallaxis, as well as Prinia. Their strong entire bills, elevated powerful legs, and terrestrial habits, are, however, their preponderant characteristics, and those which induce me, with the subordinate peculiarities above detailed, to consider them as a subgenus of Pomatorhinus, having first referred the latter to the Crateropodinæ." (Hodgson 1836).   Var. Saya, Surya.

SUBSPECIES

Say's Phoebe (saya)
SCI Name: Sayornis saya saya
saya
Thomas Say (1787-1834) US entomologist, first Secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 1812, naturalist on Long’s Expeditions to the Rocky Mts. 1819-1820, 1823 (Sayornis).

Say's Phoebe (quiescens)
SCI Name: Sayornis saya quiescens
quiescens
L. quiescens, quiescentis  quiescent, at peace, quiet  < quiescere  to rest.