Blue-bearded Helmetcrest

SCI Name:  Oxypogon cyanolaemus
Protonym:  Oxypogon cyanolaemus Ibis p.172 pl.4 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Oxypogon
Taxonomy Code:  bubhel1
Type Locality:  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 10000-14000 feet, Colombia.
Author:  Salvin & Godman
Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

OXYPOGON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Green-bearded Helmetcrest O. guerinii) Gr. οξυς oxus  sharp, pointed; πωγων pōgōn, πωγωνος pōgōnos  beard; "Genus OXYPOGON.   Gen. char.— Rostrum capite brevius, debile et rectum.  Genæ supra subtusque rostrum plumis elongatis ornatæ; illis supra erectis, his subtus pendentibus.  Alæ paululo longæ.  Cauda ampla et occlusa, furcata.  Pedes ampli et validi.  Tarsi nudi.  Hallux cum ungue longior digito, cum ungue intermedio.   ...  Types, Trochilus Guerinii and T. Lindenii." (Gould 1848); "Oxypogon Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 16, 1848, p. 14. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya guerinii Boissoneau. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 122).

cyanolaemus
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; λαιμος laimos  throat.

Cyanolaemus
(Trochilidae; syn. Lampornis † Blue-throated Hummingbird L. clemenciae) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; λαιμος laimos  throat; "The species upon which Cœligena was originally based (Ind. & Synop. gén. Troch., 1832, p. XVIII), included Ornismyia cœligena Lesson, which by tautonomy is the type. Unfortunately Lampropygia Reich. has been used for this bird and its allies and Cœligena for O. clemenciæ.  Replacing Reichenbach's name with Cœligena, we leave O. clemenciæ without a generic appellation and I propose Cyanolæmus,1  type Ornismyia clemenciæ Lesson.   ...  1 κυανεος blue, λαιμος throat." (Stone 1907); "Cyanolaemus Stone, Auk, 24, 1907, p. 196, 197.  New name to replace Coeligena Lesson not applicable.  Type, by original designation, Ornismyia clemenciae Lesson." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 80).
Var. Cyanolaema.