Creamy-breasted Canastero

SCI Name:  Asthenes dorbignyi
Protonym:  Bathmidura Dorbignyi Handb.spec.Orn. (Icon.Syn.Av.no.10) p.145,163
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Asthenes
Taxonomy Code:  crbcan1
Type Locality:  Palca, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Author:  Reichenbach
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ASTHENES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Sharp-billed Canastero A. pyrrholeuca sordida) Gr. ασθενης asthenēs  insignificant (an epithet of the bird βουδυτης boudutēs, now associated with the Yellow Wagtail, but formerly variously identified)  < negative prefix α- a- ; σθενος sthenos  power; "LXXXVII. Asthenes RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel vollkommen gerade und spitz, Schwanzfedern gesteigert, verschmälert und abgerundet. Kleid einfarbig ungefleckt. — Den Drosselrohrsänger, Junco arundinaceus, hier deutlich repräsentirend.    374. A. sordida (Synall. — LESS. Rev. 1839. 105.) RCHB. t. DXX. 3606.   ...   375. A. brunnea (Synall. — GOULD Beagle 78.6.) RCHB.   ...   376. A. striaticollis (Anumbius — D'ORBG. LAFR. syn. Voy. p. 255.) RCHB.   ...   377. A. rubra (Anumbius ruber D'ORBG. LAFR.) RCHB.   ...   378. A. aradoides (Anabates — LAFR. Mag. Zool. 1832. t. 8.) RCHB. t. DXXVII. 2642." (Reichenbach 1853); "Asthenes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 168. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis sordida Lesson (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 103).
Var. Astheres.
Synon. Eusiptornoides, Oreophylax, Pseudosiptornis, Schizoeaca, Siptornoides.

dorbignii / dorbignyana / dorbignyanus / dorbignyeana / dorbignyi / dorbygnianus
Prof. Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’Orbigny (1802-1857) French naturalist, explorer in tropical America (subsp. Arremon flavirostris, Asthenes, syn. Chlidonias hybrida, subsp. Diglossa sittoides, syn. Eriocnemis glaucopoides, Picumnus, subsp. Xiphorhynchus guttatoides) (see also orbignii).

SUBSPECIES

Creamy-breasted Canastero (Rusty-vented)
SCI Name: Asthenes dorbignyi dorbignyi/consobrina
ASTHENES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Sharp-billed Canastero A. pyrrholeuca sordida) Gr. ασθενης asthenēs  insignificant (an epithet of the bird βουδυτης boudutēs, now associated with the Yellow Wagtail, but formerly variously identified)  < negative prefix α- a- ; σθενος sthenos  power; "LXXXVII. Asthenes RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel vollkommen gerade und spitz, Schwanzfedern gesteigert, verschmälert und abgerundet. Kleid einfarbig ungefleckt. — Den Drosselrohrsänger, Junco arundinaceus, hier deutlich repräsentirend.    374. A. sordida (Synall. — LESS. Rev. 1839. 105.) RCHB. t. DXX. 3606.   ...   375. A. brunnea (Synall. — GOULD Beagle 78.6.) RCHB.   ...   376. A. striaticollis (Anumbius — D'ORBG. LAFR. syn. Voy. p. 255.) RCHB.   ...   377. A. rubra (Anumbius ruber D'ORBG. LAFR.) RCHB.   ...   378. A. aradoides (Anabates — LAFR. Mag. Zool. 1832. t. 8.) RCHB. t. DXXVII. 2642." (Reichenbach 1853); "Asthenes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 168. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis sordida Lesson (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 103).
Var. Astheres.
Synon. Eusiptornoides, Oreophylax, Pseudosiptornis, Schizoeaca, Siptornoides.

Creamy-breasted Canastero (Dark-winged)
SCI Name: Asthenes dorbignyi arequipae
arequipae
Arequipa, southern Peru.

Creamy-breasted Canastero (Pale-tailed)
SCI Name: Asthenes dorbignyi usheri
usheri
Harold Bench Usher (1893-1990) British ornithologist at BMNH (Asthenes, syn. Pomatorhinus ruficollis eidos, syn. Pterocles bicinctus multicolor).

Creamy-breasted Canastero (Huancavelica)
SCI Name: Asthenes dorbignyi huancavelicae
huancavelicae
Huancavelica, Peru.