Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush

SCI Name:  Catharus fuscater
Protonym:  M.[yioturdus] fuscater Rev.Zool. 8 p.341
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Catharus
Taxonomy Code:  sbnthr1
Type Locality:  Bogota.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1845
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CATHARUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush C. aurantiirostris) Gr. καθαρος katharos  pure, clean; alluding to the immaculate brown and white plumage of the Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush; "577. Catharus, Bp. (Turdus, p. Auct.) Rostrum Turdorum: pedes elongati, robusti: alae breves, rotundatae; remigum prima octavum aequante; tertia, quarta et quinta omnium longissimis: cauda brevis, rotundata.   America mer.  1.  *TURDUS immaculatus, Bp. Mus. Lugd. ex Caraccas.   Similis T. minoribus Amer. s. sed absque macularum vel suspicione. Rufo-olivaceus: subtus albus; pectore, lateribusque ardosiaceis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Catharus Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Av., 1 (1850), p. 278. Type, by monotypy, Turdus immaculatus Bonaparte = Turdus aurantiirostris Hartlaub." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 164).
Synon. Malacocichla.

fuscater
Mod. L. fuscater  blackish, dark brown, dark grey  < L. fuscus  dark; ater  black.

SUBSPECIES

Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush (Black-backed)
SCI Name: Catharus fuscater hellmayri
hellmayri
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878-1944) Austrian/US ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, subsp. Anthoscopus caroli, Anthus, subsp. Attila rufus, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, subsp. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Celeus elegans, syn. Chloroceryle americana cabanisii, Cinnyris, syn. Conopophaga lineata, Cranioleuca, syn. Crypturellus strigulosus, subsp. Cyanerpes caeruleus, subsp. Dendrocincla tyrannina, Drymophila, subsp. Empidonax occidentalis, subsp. Geositta cunicularia, syn. Geositta rufipennis fasciata, subsp. Hemithraupis flavicollis, subsp. Isleria hauxwelli, subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris, subsp. Leptopogon superciliaris, subsp. Leptotila rufaxilla, Mecocerculus, subsp. Myioborus miniatus, subsp. Myiozetetes cayanensis, syn. Nonnula rubecula, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris, syn. Petronia petronia, subsp. Piaya cayana, syn. Pitangus sulphuratus, subsp. Poecile palustris, subsp. Pyriglena leuconota, subsp. Rhynchocyclus brevirostris, subsp. Saltator aurantiirostris, syn. Selenidera gouldii, subsp. Sporophila caerulescens, Synallaxis, subsp. Tanygnathus megalorhynchos, subsp. Terenotriccus erythrurus, syn. Thamnophilus schistaceus dubius, subsp. Tyto alba, subsp. Xenops tenuirostris).

Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush (Slaty-backed)
SCI Name: Catharus fuscater [fuscater Group]
CATHARUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush C. aurantiirostris) Gr. καθαρος katharos  pure, clean; alluding to the immaculate brown and white plumage of the Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush; "577. Catharus, Bp. (Turdus, p. Auct.) Rostrum Turdorum: pedes elongati, robusti: alae breves, rotundatae; remigum prima octavum aequante; tertia, quarta et quinta omnium longissimis: cauda brevis, rotundata.   America mer.  1.  *TURDUS immaculatus, Bp. Mus. Lugd. ex Caraccas.   Similis T. minoribus Amer. s. sed absque macularum vel suspicione. Rufo-olivaceus: subtus albus; pectore, lateribusque ardosiaceis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Catharus Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Av., 1 (1850), p. 278. Type, by monotypy, Turdus immaculatus Bonaparte = Turdus aurantiirostris Hartlaub." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 164).
Synon. Malacocichla.