Black-crowned Tityra

SCI Name:  Tityra inquisitor
Protonym:  L[anius] Inquisitor Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.50
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tityridae / Tityra
Taxonomy Code:  blctit1
Type Locality:  Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TITYRA
(Tityridae; Ϯ Western Black-tailed Tityra T. cayana) Tityrus, the name of a rustic shepherd in Virgil’s Eclogues. The ancients also gave the name Tityri to the satyrs and other raucous companions of Pan and Bacchus, and this meaning is more applicable to the noisy, aggressive behaviour of the Black-tailed Tityra; "BÉCARDE, Tityra.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre à la base, robuste, épais, droit, un peu déprimé, convexe dessus et dessous; mandibule inférieure entaillée, aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Bouche ample, ciliée.   Esp. Bécarde, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Tityra Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 39. Type, by monotypy, "Bécarde" Buffon = Lanius cayanus Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 241).  
Var. Tetyra, Tytira.
Synon. Erator, Exetastes, Pachyrhynchus, Psaris.

inquisitor
L. inquisitor, inquisitoris  investigator, searcher, examiner  < inquirire   to investigate  < in  towards; quaerere  to seek.

SUBSPECIES

Black-crowned Tityra (albitorques)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor albitorques
albitorques / albitorquis
L. albus  white; torquis or torques  collar, necklace  < torquere  to twist.

Black-crowned Tityra (buckleyi)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor buckleyi
buckleyi
● Thomas Edward Buckley (1846-1902) English traveller in Lapland, Sweden, Turkey, Greece and North America, ornithologist, collector, big-game hunter in tropical Africa 1872-1873, 1876, 1888 (subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Peliperdix).
● Clarence Buckley (b. 1832) British collector in Bolivia and Ecuador 1868-1880 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (?syn. Chrysuronia oenone alleni, syn. Coeligena iris, syn. Colibri coruscans, Columbina, Laniisoma, Micrastur, subsp. Odontophorus gujanensis, subsp. Tityra inquisitor).

Black-crowned Tityra (erythrogenys)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor erythrogenys
ERYTHROGENYS
(Timaliidae; † Rusty-cheeked Scimitar-babbler E. erythrogenys) Specific name Pomatorhinus erythrogenys Vigors, 1832. "Erythrogenys "Hodgs." = Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, ed. 2, 7, p. 39. Type, by original designation and tautonymy, "E[rythrogenys]. gouldii = P[omatorhinus]. erythrogenys Vigors." Not Erythrogenys Brandt, 1841, nomen emendatum for Erythrogonys Gould, 1838." (Deignan 1964 in Peters, X, p. 266); "Baker (1930) coined this name by accident, citing Hodgson, 1836 but Hodgson had in fact used Erythrogonys, which was preoccupied.  Baker's name is not preoccupied by Erythrogenys von Brandt as that was a nomen emendatum and has no standing." (Dickinson and Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 528).
Synon. Megapomatorhinus, Orthorhinus.
• see  Erythrogonys.

Black-crowned Tityra (fraserii)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor fraserii
fraserii
Louis Fraser (?1819-?1883) English zoologist, Curator of ZSL Museum 1832-1846, Curator of Knowsley Collection 1848-1851, Vice-Consul to Dahomey 1851-1853, collector in Nigeria 1841-1842, Ecuador 1857, California 1860, and Florida 1883 (subsp. Tityra inquisitor).

Black-crowned Tityra (inquisitor)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor inquisitor
inquisitor
L. inquisitor, inquisitoris  investigator, searcher, examiner  < inquirire   to investigate  < in  towards; quaerere  to seek.

Black-crowned Tityra (pelzelni)
SCI Name: Tityra inquisitor pelzelni
pelzelni / pelzelnii
August Pelzel Edler von Pelzeln (1825-1891) Austrian ornithologist, collector (syn. Amazilia franciae cyaneicollis, Ammonastes, Aplonis, subsp. Cyanophonia cyanocephala, syn. Cygnus olor, Elaenia, Granatellus, syn. Ibycter americanus, syn. Micrastur gilvicollis, subsp. Myiarchus swainsoni, Ploceus, Pseudotriccus, subsp. Rhipidura albiscapa, subsp. Sicalis flaveola, Tachybaptus, Thamnophilus, subsp. Tityra inquisitor).