Galapagos Mockingbird

SCI Name:  Mimus parvulus
Protonym:  Orpheus parvulus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt5 no.50 p.27
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Mimus
Taxonomy Code:  galmoc1
Type Locality:  the Galapagos [type from Albemarle Island].
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MIMUS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Northern Mockingbird M. polyglottos) L. mimus  mimic  < Gr. μιμος mimos  mimic; "Hernandez justly calls it the queen of all singing birds. The Indians, by way of eminence or admiration, call it cencontlatolly, or four hundred tongues; and we call it (though not by so elevated a name, yet very properly) the mock-bird, from its wonderful mocking and imitating the notes of all birds, from the humming-bird to the eagle" (Catesby 1731); "LE GRAND MOQUEUR ...  MIMUS MAJOR ...  il chante très-bien, & imite parfaitement le chant de tous les Oiseaux" (Brisson 1760): based on "Mimus" of Charleton 1668, "Mock-bird" of Catesby 1731, and other references; "Mimus Briss.  Turdus polyglottus Lin. enl. 645. u.v.a." (Boie 1826); "Mimus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, p. 972. Type, by monotypy, Turdus polyglottos Linnaeus." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 442).
Var. Mimetes, Minus, Memus, Nemus.
Synon. Leucomimus, Mimodes, Nesomimus, Orpheus, Skotiomimus.

mimus
L. mimus  mimic  < Gr. μιμος mimos  mimic.

parvula / parvulum / parvulus
L. parvulus  very small  < dim. parvus  small.

SUBSPECIES

Galapagos Mockingbird (parvulus)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus parvulus
parvula / parvulum / parvulus
L. parvulus  very small  < dim. parvus  small.

Galapagos Mockingbird (barringtoni)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus barringtoni
barringtonensis / barringtoni
Barrington I. (= Santa Fe I.), Galápagos Is.

Galapagos Mockingbird (personatus)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus personatus
personata / personatus
L. personatus  masked  < persona  mask.
● ex “Perroquet Geoffroy” of Levaillant 1805 (syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi).
● ex “Chouette à Masque Noir” of Levaillant 1799, pl. 44 (syn. Pulsatrix perspicillata).

Galapagos Mockingbird (wenmani)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus wenmani
wenmani
Wenman I. (= Wolf I.), Galápagos Is.

Galapagos Mockingbird (hulli)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus hulli
hulli
● Arthur Francis Basset Hull (1862-1945) Australian barrister, ornithologist, philatelist (syn. Ardenna tenuirostris).
● Galen Dorens Hull (1865-1909) US taxidermist, geologist, collector on Galápagos Is. 1897-1898 (subsp. Mimus parvulus).

Galapagos Mockingbird (bauri)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus bauri
bauri
Dr George Hermann Carl Ludwig Baur (1859-1898) German osteologist, herpetologist, collector in the Galápagos Is. 1891 (syn. Geospiza fortis, subsp. Mimus parvulus).