Buff-tailed Sicklebill

SCI Name:  Eutoxeres condamini
Protonym:  Trochilus Condamini Compt.Rend. 32 p.187
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eutoxeres
Taxonomy Code:  butsic1
Type Locality:  Archidona, Ecuador.
Author:  Bourcier
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EUTOXERES
(Trochilidae; Ϯ White-tipped Sicklebill E. aquila) Gr. ευ eu  fine, good; τοχηρης toxērēs  archer, furnished with the bow  < τοξον toxon  bow (cf. ευτοξια eutoxia  skill in archery). Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaëtorninae, shows the head of this hummingbird with its distinctive arched bill; "Eutoxeres Aquila (Tr. — BOURC. 1847.) RCHB. syst. — St Fé de Bog.    — Condaminei (Tr. — BOURC. 1851.) RCHB. — Ecuador: Archidona." (Reichenbach 1854); "Eutoxeres Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. XL. generic details only, no species. Species added, Gould, Monogr. Trochil., pt. 2, Nov. 1851, pls. [5 and 6]. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus aquila Lodd. i.e. Bourcier. (Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 21.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 16).
Synon. Myiaetina.

condamini
Charles Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) French scientist, mathematician, explorer, traveller on the Amazon 1735-1743 (Eutoxeres).

SUBSPECIES

Buff-tailed Sicklebill (condamini)
SCI Name: Eutoxeres condamini condamini
condamini
Charles Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) French scientist, mathematician, explorer, traveller on the Amazon 1735-1743 (Eutoxeres).

Buff-tailed Sicklebill (gracilis)
SCI Name: Eutoxeres condamini gracilis
gracilis
L. gracilis or gracilus  slender, elegant, slim, thin.
● “has many characters in common with the Ptilotis chrysotis ... and the Ptilotis similis ... but it differs from both in the greater slenderness of its form, in its diminutive size, and, especially from the former, in the uniform colouring of its throat and abdomen” (Gould 1866) (Microptilotis).
● ex “Gracile Goatsucker” of Latham 1801 (syn. Podargus strigoides).