Silver-throated Tanager

SCI Name:  Tangara icterocephala
Protonym:  Calliste icterocephala Compt.Rend. 32 p.76
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  sittan1
Type Locality:  Ecuador ; type from the valley of Punta Playa, south of Quito, fide P. L. Sclater, 1851, in Jardine''s Contrib. Ornith., 1, p. 53.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1851
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.

icterocephala / icterocephalus
Gr. ικτερος ikteros  jaundice-yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.
● ex “Verdin icterocephale” of Temminck 1830 (Chloropsis).
● ex “Carouge à teste jaune de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Yellow-headed Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (syn. Piculus flavigula).
● "114. MOTACILLA.  ...  icterocephala.  25. M. grisea, subtus albida, pileo luteo, fscia ocularinigra, duabusque alaribus flavis.  Ficedula canadensis icterocephala. Briss. av. 3. p. 517. t. 27. f. 2.  Habitat in Canada." (Linnaeus 1766) (syn. Setophaga pensylvanica).

SUBSPECIES

Silver-throated Tanager (frantzii)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala frantzii
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).

Silver-throated Tanager (oresbia)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala oresbia
oresbia
Gr. ορεσβιος oresbios  living on mountains  < ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain; βιοω bioō  to live.

Silver-throated Tanager (icterocephala)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala icterocephala
icterocephala / icterocephalus
Gr. ικτερος ikteros  jaundice-yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.
● ex “Verdin icterocephale” of Temminck 1830 (Chloropsis).
● ex “Carouge à teste jaune de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Yellow-headed Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (syn. Piculus flavigula).
● "114. MOTACILLA.  ...  icterocephala.  25. M. grisea, subtus albida, pileo luteo, fscia ocularinigra, duabusque alaribus flavis.  Ficedula canadensis icterocephala. Briss. av. 3. p. 517. t. 27. f. 2.  Habitat in Canada." (Linnaeus 1766) (syn. Setophaga pensylvanica).