Black-crested Coquette

SCI Name:  Lophornis helenae
Protonym:  Ornismya Helenae Rev.Zool. 6 p.133
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lophornis
Taxonomy Code:  blccoq1
Type Locality:  Vera Paz, Guatemala.
Author:  Delattre
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOPHORNIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Tufted Coquette L. ornatus) Gr. λοφος lophos  crest, tuft; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "LES COQUETS. Lophornis. Nob.  La queue est courte, ou rectiligne, ou arrondie, ou un peu échancrée; mais la tête est surmontée d'une huppe, ou les plumes du cou sont disposées en faisceaux et se développent de manière à former sur les côtés du cou des parures accessoires.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE NATTERER. Ornismya Nattereri.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE PÉTASOPHORE. Ornismya petasophora.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE DELALANDE OU LE PLUMET BLEU. Ornismya Delalandi.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE HUPPÉ. Ornismya cristata.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE HUPPE-COL. Ornismya ornata.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE HAUSSE-COL BLANC. Ornismya strumaria.  ...  OISEAU-MOUCHE VIEILLOT. Ornismya Vieillotii." (Lesson 1829); "Lophornis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches [1829], p. xxxvij. Type, by subsequent designation, L. ornata (L.) Less. Ois. M., pl. 14 = Trochilus ornatus Boddaert. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 14.)" (Peters 1945, V, 31).
Synon. Aurinia, Bellatrix, Cosmorrhipis, Dialia, Idas, Lophomyia, Lophorinus, Paphosia, Polemistria, Telamon.

helenae
• Renée Marie Jeanne Hélène Lavauden (1912-1989) daughter of French naturalist and forester Louis Lavauden (subsp. Galerida cristata).
• Helen McMahon Cutting (1894-1961) wife of US explorer C. Suydam Cutting (subsp. Harpactes erythrocephalus).
• Gr. myth. Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium,” wife to Menelaüs and the most beautiful woman of her age (Hypothymis).
• Helen or Ellen Kelsall née Owens (1873-1930) wife of Colonel H. J. Kelsall, collector in tropical Africa 1910-1913 (subsp. Laniarius barbarus).
• Helen Luise Elisabeth Herzogin zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princesse d’Orléans (1814-1858) wife of patron of natural history Ferdinand Philippe Duc d’Orléans (Lophornis).
• Elena de Faz Booth y Tinto (d. 1850) wife of Cuban plantation owner Carlos Booth y Tinto, who befriended Gundlach (Mellisuga).
• Helen Mackenzie McConnell née Alexander (1871-1954) wife of English collector F. V. McConnell (subsp. Neopipo cinnamomea).
• Helena Forde née Scott (1832-1910) Australian entomologist, oologist and artist (subsp. Parotia lawesii).
• Helena Mary Ann Oates née Blythe (1865-1903) wife of English naturalist Eugene W. Oates (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Polyplectron bicalcaratum).
• Helen Livingston Greenway née Scott (1903-1985) first wife of US ornithologist James C. Greenway, Jr. (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Stachyris strialata).