Bahama Yellowthroat

SCI Name:  Geothlypis rostrata
Protonym:  Geothlypis rostratus Proc.BostonSoc.Nat.Hist. 11(1866) p.67
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Geothlypis
Taxonomy Code:  bahyel1
Type Locality:  Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.
Author:  Bryant, H
Publish Year:  1867
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GEOTHLYPIS
(Parulidae; † Common Yellowthroat G. trichas) Gr. γεω- geō-  ground-, earth-  < γη gē  earth; θλυπις thlupis  unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch or warbler. In ornithology thlypis signifies either a thin-billed tanager or, as in this case, a parulid warbler; "Subfam. Sylvicolinae.  1. Geothlypis (Trichas Sws. nec Gloger).  ...  Gen. Trichas Gloger.  Der Name Trichas wurde von Gloger im März 1827 an die Stelle von Criniger (!) Temm. gesetzt. Trichophorus Temm. ist später als Trichas Gloger vorgeschlagen.  Für die Gattung Trichas Sws., April 1827 haben wir den Namen Geothlypis (Fam. Sylvicolidae) vorgeschlagen   1. Trichas barbata (Temm.).   2. T. gularis (Horsf.).   3. T. icterica (Strickl.).   4. T. flaveola (Gould). etc." (Cabanis 1847); "Geothlypis Cabanis, 1847, Archiv für Naturgesch., 13, pp. 316, 349.  New name for Trichas Swainson, (June) 1827, preoccupied by Trichas Gloger, (March) 1827." (JAJ 2021) (see Trichas).
Var. Geothlipis.   
Synon. Chamaethlypis, Frutiornis, Trichas.

rostrata
L. rostratus  beaked, large-billed  < rostrum  beak.
● “The native who carried it finding its bite too severe to be often repeated, submitted the poor creature to a most cruel remedy, often practised by the island bird-catchers, which was to thrust the sharp point of the upper mandible through the lower, thus yoking it with its own jaw; in this state it was kept until the party reached the coast” (Peale 1848) (Pseudobulweria).

SUBSPECIES

Bahama Yellowthroat (coryi)
SCI Name: Geothlypis rostrata coryi
coryi
Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (Asthenes, subsp. Chordeiles nacunda, syn. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Geothlypis rostrata, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, subsp. Phaenicophilus poliocephalus, subsp. Rallus crepitans, syn. Sula sula, syn. Tiaris olivacea, subsp. Turdus rubripes).

Bahama Yellowthroat (tanneri)
SCI Name: Geothlypis rostrata tanneri
tanneri
Lt.-Commander Zera Luther Tanner (1835-1906) US Navy, deep-sea explorer, collector (subsp. Geothlypis rostrata, Troglodytes).

Bahama Yellowthroat (rostrata)
SCI Name: Geothlypis rostrata rostrata
rostrata
L. rostratus  beaked, large-billed  < rostrum  beak.
● “The native who carried it finding its bite too severe to be often repeated, submitted the poor creature to a most cruel remedy, often practised by the island bird-catchers, which was to thrust the sharp point of the upper mandible through the lower, thus yoking it with its own jaw; in this state it was kept until the party reached the coast” (Peale 1848) (Pseudobulweria).