Black-throated Shrike-Tanager

SCI Name:  Lanio aurantius
Protonym:  Lanio Aurantius Rev.Zool. 9 p.204
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Lanio
Taxonomy Code:  btstan1
Type Locality:  Colombia ; error, Guatemala suggested by Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1072.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LANIO
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fulvous Shrike Tanager L. fulvus) Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; “122. LANION, Lanio.  Tanagra, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec robuste, comprimé latéralement, caréné en dessus, rétréci vers le bout; mandibule supérieure dentée vers le milieu, crochue à la pointe; l'inférieure échancrée, aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité.—Bouche ciliée.   Esp. Tangara mordoré, Buffon.” (Vieillot 1816); "Lanio Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 40. Type, by original designation [= by monotypy], "Tangara mordoré" of Buffon = Tangara fulva Boddaert." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 285).
Synon. Pogonothraupis.

aurantium / aurantius
Late Med. L. aurantius  orange-coloured  < aurantia  orange.
● ex “Pic vert des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1655-1781, pl. 691 (syn. Chrysocolaptes lucidus).
● ex “Orange-breasted Hobby” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Falco rufigularis).
● ex “Little Black-and-orange-coloured Hawk” of Edwards 1743-1751 (syn. Microhierax caerulescens).
● ex “Thrush” of Sloane 1725, and Ray 1713, “Merula jamaicensis” of Brisson 1760, “Merle brun de la Jamaïque” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “White-chinned Thrush” of Latham 1783 (Turdus).
● ex “Orange-headed Honey-sucker” of Pennant 1773, and “Orange-headed Humming-bird” of Latham 1783 (unident.).