Blue-gray Tanager

SCI Name:  Thraupis episcopus
Protonym:  Tanagra Episcopus Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.316
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Thraupis
Taxonomy Code:  bugtan
Type Locality:  Bresil; type probably from Cayenne, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 205.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis  unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae.  Tanagra Lin.   ...   Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman.   ...   Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318).   Var. Thrapis.

episcopus
Late L. episcopus  bishop  < Gr. επισκοπος episkopos  guardian, teacher, overseer; ref. black cap, or purple or blue plumage.
● ex “Héron de la côte de Coromandel” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 906, and “Héron violet” of de Buffon 1770-1785. "Bishop Stork, Parson-bird  ...In the adult, the hindhead and neck are white, with a black 'parson's cap'" (Hancock et al. 1992) (Ciconia).
● “Bishop Hermit ...in this little section of the Phaethorni the males of some of the species have their breasts crossed by a distinct patch of lengthened purplish-black plumes” (Gould 1861) (Phaethornis).
● Dr Louis B. Bishop (fl. 1911) US physician, ornithologist (syn. Sialia sialis fulva).
● ex “Evesque” or “Episcopus avis” of Brisson 1760; “It is called by the inhabitants of Cayenne, L’Evêque” (Latham 1783) (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-gray Tanager (Blue-gray)
SCI Name: Thraupis episcopus [cana Group]
Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis  unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae.  Tanagra Lin.   ...   Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman.   ...   Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318).   Var. Thrapis.

Blue-gray Tanager (White-edged)
SCI Name: Thraupis episcopus [episcopus Group]
Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis  unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae.  Tanagra Lin.   ...   Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman.   ...   Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318).   Var. Thrapis.