Cinnamon Becard

SCI Name:  Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
Protonym:  Pachyramphus cinnamomeus Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 7 p.295
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tityridae / Pachyramphus
Taxonomy Code:  cinbec1
Type Locality:  along line of Panama Railroad; type from Lion Hill (McLeannon Collection), fide Salvin and Godman, 1890, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 2, p. 126.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1861
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PACHYRAMPHUS
(Tityridae; Ϯ Green-backed Becard P. viridis) Gr. παχυς pakhus  stout, thick; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "rostro vix brevi, crasso, alto, rotundato-convexo, ad frontem largo, apice dentato" (von Spix 1826) (see Becardia); "PACHYRAMPHUS, n.  Pachyrhynchus, Spix.  Psaris, Cuv.   P. Cuvieri, (Swains.) n., Zool. Ill., t. 32." (G. Gray 1840); "The generic name of Pachyrhynchus Spix, is changed by Mr. G. R. Gray, to Pachyramphus, as the former word is used in entomology" (Darwin 1841); "Pachyramphus G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 31. Type, by original designation, Psaris Cuvierii Swainson = Tityra viridis Vieillot." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 229).
Synon. Bathmidurus, Berlepschia, Callopsaris, Chloropsaris, Climacocercus, Hadrostomus, Pachyrhamphus, Pachyrhynchus, Platypsaris, Zetetes.

cinnamomeum / cinnamomeus
Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured, cinnamomeous  < L. cinnamomum or cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμωμον kinnamōmon or κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon.
● ex “Cinnamon Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Attila).
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524, “Pic mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-17783, and “Ferruginous Woodpecker” of Latham 1782, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Celeus elegans).
● ex “Cinnamon Creeper” of Latham 1782 (Certhiaxis).
● ex “Cinnamon Heron” of Latham 1785 (Ixobrychus).

SUBSPECIES

Cinnamon Becard (badius)
SCI Name: Pachyramphus cinnamomeus badius
badius
L. badius chestnut-coloured, brown.
● ex “Brown Hawk” of Brown 1776, and Latham 1781 (Accipiter).
● ex “Tordo del pardo-roxizo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 63 (Agelaioides).
● ex “Port Jackson Thrush” of White 1790 (syn. Colluricincla harmonica).
● ex “Apiaster ex Franciae insula” of Brisson 1760, “Guêpier de l’île de France” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 252, “Guêpier maron et bleu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Chestnut Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (syn. Merops viridis).

Cinnamon Becard (cinnamomeus)
SCI Name: Pachyramphus cinnamomeus cinnamomeus
cinnamomeum / cinnamomeus
Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured, cinnamomeous  < L. cinnamomum or cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμωμον kinnamōmon or κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon.
● ex “Cinnamon Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Attila).
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524, “Pic mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-17783, and “Ferruginous Woodpecker” of Latham 1782, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Celeus elegans).
● ex “Cinnamon Creeper” of Latham 1782 (Certhiaxis).
● ex “Cinnamon Heron” of Latham 1785 (Ixobrychus).

Cinnamon Becard (fulvidior)
SCI Name: Pachyramphus cinnamomeus fulvidior
fulvidior
Mod. L. fulvidior, fulvidioris  more tawny  < Late L. fulvidus  tawny  < L. fulvus  tawny.

Cinnamon Becard (magdalenae)
SCI Name: Pachyramphus cinnamomeus magdalenae
magdalenae / magdalenensis
● Río Magdalena, Colombia (subsp. Malacoptila panamensis, subsp. Microbates cinereiventris, subsp. Pachyramphus cinnamomeus, subsp. Thamnophilus nigriceps, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps).
● Bahía Magdalena, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Passerculus sandwichensis, syn. Rallus longirostris beldingi).
● Isla María Magdalena, Las Tres Marías Is., Mexico (subsp. Pheugopedius felix).
● Etymology undiscovered; an eponym or a toponym, but no clue is given (Wolters 1949, Beitr. Gattungssyst. Vögel, 13) (OD per Martin Schneider) (syn. Serinus mozambicus barbatus).
● Llanos de Magdalena, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Thryomanes bewickii).