Amazonian Grosbeak

SCI Name:  Cyanoloxia rothschildii
Protonym:  Guiraca rothschildii Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist. ser. 6, vol. VI, N° 32 p. 168-169
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Cyanoloxia
Taxonomy Code:  bubgro2
Type Locality:  Caramang River, British Guiana.
Author:  Bartlett, E
Publish Year:  1890
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOLOXIA
(Cardinalidae; † Glaucous-blue Grosbeak C. glaucocaerulea) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; genus Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill; "*1030. Cyanoloxia, Bp. (Guiraca, p. Gr.)   America.   5.    1. LOXIA caerulea, L. (Fringilla caerulea, Bp. - Pyurrhula carolinensis caerulea, Br. - Guiraca hinc Coccoborus caeruleus, Sw.) Catesb. Carol. I. t. 39. - Wils. Am. Orn. t. 24. 6. - Aud. Am. t. 122. ex merid. Am. s.   ...   2. LOXIA cyanea, L. (L. caerulea, var. β. Gm. - Pyrrhula caerulea brasiliana, Br. - Fringilla brissoni, Licht. - Pitylus cyaneus, Lafr. - Pitylus cyaneus, et P. brissoni, Gr. sp. 5. et 6.) Br. Orn. III. t. 17. 2. - Edw. B. t. 125. Vieill. Ois. Chant. t. 64. - Azara 119. ex Am. m. Bras. Parag.   ...   3. COCCOBORUS cyanoides, Lafr. (Pitylus cyanoides, Gr.) Rev. Zool. 1847. p. 74. sp. 17. ex Panama.   ...   *4. FRINGILLA parellina, Licht. (Pitylus lazulus? Less. Rev. Zool. 1842. p. 174.) Mus. Berol. ex Mexico, Alvarado.  ...  5. PYRRHULA glauco-caerulea, Lafr. (Spermophila glauco-caerulea, Gr.) Orb. Voy. Am. m. t. 50. 2. ex Am. m. or. Maldonado." (Bonaparte 1850 (Consp. Avium)); "Nous y rattachons le nouveau genre Cyanoloxia, BP. dont le type Loxia caerulea, L., a été aussi considéré comme une Guiraca, mais à laquelle nous réunissons trois au quatre autres Pityliens bleus inextricablement confondus, et ballotés dans les genres Loxia, Fringilla, Guiraca, Coccoborus, Pyrrhula, et peut-être même Tanagra" (Bonaparte 1850 (Monog. Loxiens)); "The type of Cyanoloxia, by elimination, is Pyrrhula glauco-cærulea D'Orbigny." (Ridgway 1901); "425. gen. CYANOLOXIA Bp.  (Tipo, por eliminación: Phyrrula [sic] glaucocaerulea Orb.)" (Dabbene 1910); "Cyanoloxia Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, (2), p. 502, end of 1850— type, by present designation, Pyrrhula glauco-caerulea Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny.1  ...   1 The same species was indicated as "type by elimination" by Ridgway (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, Part 1, p. 594, footnote, 1901) and Dabbene (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, 18, p. 378, 1910)." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 105).
Var. Cyanoloxias.

rothschildiana / rothschildii
Lionel Walter 2^nd Baron Rothschild of Tring (1868-1937) English ornithologist, entomologist, founder of Tring Mus., publisher (Novitates Zoologicae) (syn. Cecropis striolata, Cyanoloxia) (see rothschildi).