White-breasted Woodswallow

SCI Name:  Artamus leucorynchus
Protonym:  Lanius leucoryn[chus] MantissaPlant. p.524
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Artamus
Taxonomy Code:  whbwoo4
Type Locality:  Manila, Luzon.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1771
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARTAMUS
(Artamidae; Ϯ White-breasted Woodswallow A. leucoryn) Gr. αρταμος artamos  butcher, murderer; the woodswallows were formerly known as swallow-shrikes, combining the characters of swallows and shrikes or butcherbirds (see Enneoctonus and Lanius); "129. LANGRAIEN, Artamus.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre à la base, très-lisse, longicône, un peu robuste, convexe en dessus, un peu comprimé latéralement vers la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu fléchie en arc, échancrée vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes sans penne bâtarde, alongées; la première remige la plus longue.   Esp. Langraien, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Artamus Vieillot, 1816 (April), Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, Langraien (Buffon) = Lanius leucorhynchus Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 161).
Var. Artamusete.
Synon. Angroyan, Austrartamus, Campbellornis, Cataphania, Langrayen, Leptopteryx, Micrartamus, Ocypterus, Pseudartamus.

leucoryn / leucoryncha / leucorynchos / leucorynchus
Gr. λευκορυγχος leukorhunkhos  white-nosed  < λευκος leukos  white; ῥυγχος  rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Pie-Grièche de Manille” of Brisson 1760 (Artamus).

SUBSPECIES

White-breasted Woodswallow (pelewensis)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus pelewensis
pelewensis
Pelew / Palau / Belau Is., Micronesia.

White-breasted Woodswallow (leucorynchus)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus leucorynchus
leucoryn / leucoryncha / leucorynchos / leucorynchus
Gr. λευκορυγχος leukorhunkhos  white-nosed  < λευκος leukos  white; ῥυγχος  rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Pie-Grièche de Manille” of Brisson 1760 (Artamus).

White-breasted Woodswallow (amydrus)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus amydrus
amydrus
Gr. negative prefix α- a- ; μυδρος mudros  bright, glowing (cf. αμυδρος amudros  obscure).

White-breasted Woodswallow (humei)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus humei
humei
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) English civil servant in India 1850-1894, ornithologist, collector, founder of journal ‘Stray Feathers’ (subsp. Aegithina tiphia, syn. Alectoris chukar pallescens, subsp. Artamus leucoryn, syn. Dendrocopos macei, subsp. Micropternus brachyurus, syn. Napothera epilepidota granti, syn. Periparus ater aemodius, Phylloscopus, Stachyris).

White-breasted Woodswallow (albiventer)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus albiventer
albiventer / albiventre / albiventris
L. albus  white; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Drongri à Ventre Blanc” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 171 (syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus).
● ex “Martin-pêcheur de l’Île de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (Halcyon).
● ex “Hirondelle à ventre blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 546, fig. 2 (Tachycineta).

White-breasted Woodswallow (musschenbroeki)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus musschenbroeki
musschenbroeki / musschenbroekii
Samuel Cornelius Jan Willem van Musschenbroek (1827-1883) Dutch colonial administrator in the East Indies (subsp. Artamus leucoryn, Neopsittacus, syn. Ptilinopus viridis geelvinkianus, Surniculus).

White-breasted Woodswallow (leucopygialis)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis
leucopygia / leucopygialis / leucopygius
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

White-breasted Woodswallow (melaleucus)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus melaleucus
melaleuca / melaleucus
Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; λευκος leukos  white.

White-breasted Woodswallow (tenuis)
SCI Name: Artamus leucorynchus tenuis
tenuis
L. tenuis, tenue  slender, weak, thin, slight, refined.