Bare-throated Bellbird

SCI Name:  Procnias nudicollis
Protonym:  Ampelis nudicollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 8 p.164
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cotingidae / Procnias
Taxonomy Code:  batbel1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro (J. T. Z.).
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PROCNIAS
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Bearded Bellbird P. averano) Gr. myth. Prokne or Procne, who was metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne); "GENUS 58. PROCNIAS Hoffmansegg (a Procne in hirundinem mutata) (Schnapper Germ.)  Rostrum brevius, basi latissimum, dpressum, grypanium, dertro subadunco compresso, mandibulis triangularibus; tomiis maxillaribus versus basin utrinsecus dilatatis, versus apicem contractis, ibidem emarginatis. Myxa apice sursum inflexo. Furca admodum patens, gnathidis angustis.  ...  Species: Ampelis variegata, carunculata? Lin Gmel. Hirundo viridis Temminck Catalog. (at nostra avis, cum descriptione bene congruens, e Brasilia est.)" (Illiger 1811); "Procnias Illiger, 1811, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium, p. 228. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 34), "P. variegatus (L.) Ill." = Ampelis variegata Gmelin = Ampelis Averano Hermann." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 305). Illiger appears to have misidentified Temminck's bird.
Synon. Arapunga, Averano, Averanus, Calloprocnias, Casmarhinchos, Eulopogon, Vavasouria.
● (syn. Tersina Ϯ Swallow Tanager T. viridis) This name makes more sense when applied to the Swallow Tanager; “Moreover, the name Procnias clearly alludes to the swallow-like form of Tersa (which induced Temminck at that time to call it Hirundo viridis)” (Strickland 1841); "from its large Swallow-like gape and lengthened wings " (P. Sclater 1886).   
Var. Procnia.

nudicollis
L. nudus  bare; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Colnud de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 609 (syn. Gymnoderus foetidus).
● ex “Perdrix d’Afrique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 180, and “Perdrix rouge d’Afrique” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pternistis afer).
● ex “Gorge-nue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bare-necked Partridge” of Latham 1783 (syn. Pternistis castaneiventer).