Scarlet-browed Tanager

SCI Name:  Heterospingus xanthopygius
Protonym:  Tachyphonus xanthopygius Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1854) (1854), Pt22 no.269 p.158 pl.69
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Heterospingus
Taxonomy Code:  scbtan2
Type Locality:  in Nova Grenada [= Bogota collections].
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HETEROSPINGUS
(Thraupidae; † Sulphur-rumped Tanager H. rubrifrons) Gr. ἑτερος heteros  different, another; σπιγγος spingos  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "Genus Heterospingus.  (Type, Tachyphonus rubrifrons Lawrence.)   Similar to Tachyphonus Vieillot, but nasal fossæ densely feathered, concealing the nostrils; tail relatively much shorter, wing more pointed, tarsus shorter (scarcely exceeding middle toe with claw), and sexes alike in color or nearly so in pattern of coloration." (Ridgway 1898); "Heterospingus Ridgway, Auk, 15, p. 225, 1898—type, by orig. desig., Tachyphonus rubrifrons Lawrence." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 344).

xanthopygia / xanthopygium / xanthopygius
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

SUBSPECIES

Scarlet-browed Tanager (xanthopygius)
SCI Name: Heterospingus xanthopygius xanthopygius
xanthopygia / xanthopygium / xanthopygius
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Scarlet-browed Tanager (berliozi)
SCI Name: Heterospingus xanthopygius berliozi
berliozi
Jacques Paul Antoine Berlioz (1891-1975) French ornithologist (syn. Alcippe cinereiceps fucata, Apus, subsp. Heterospingus xanthopygius, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Mentocrex kioloides, syn. Muscicapa striata balearica, syn. Myiopagis gaimardii, syn. Pycnonotus flavescens vividus, Ramphastos vitellinus x hybrid).