Giant Conebill

SCI Name:  Conirostrum binghami
Protonym:  Oreomanes binghami Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 41 p. 331 Cedrobamba Ruins, Machu Picchu, alt. 12,000 ft.
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Conirostrum
Taxonomy Code:  giacon1
Type Locality:  Cedrobamba Ruins, Machu Picchu, alt. 12,000 ft. (timberline), Peru.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1919
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CONIROSTRUM
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Cinereous Conebill C. cinereum) L. conus  cone; rostrum  bill; "G. CONIROSTRUM. Nob.   Hoc novum genus a duobus præcedentibus [Serrirostrum, Coereba], rostro rectissimo, conico, compresso valde discrepans, attamen pedibus, alis, moribusque mellivoris illis affine videtur generisque Dacnis æque vicinum est.   1. Conirostrum cinereum, Nob.  ...  Rostrum rectissimum compresso-conicum acutissimum  ...  Habit. Yungas, rep. Boliviana; Tacna, rep. Peruviana." (d'Orbigny & de La Fresnaye 1838); "Conirostrum Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny, 1838, Mag. Zool. [Paris], 8, cl. 2, p. 25. Type, by monotypy, Conirostrum cinereum Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny." (Lowery & Monroe in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 82).
Var. Conirostra.
Synon. Ateleodacnis, Oreomanes.

binghami
● Lt.-Col. Prof. Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) USAAF, historian, politician, Senator from Connecticut 1924-1933 (censured 1929), Lt.-Gov. of Connecticut 1923-1925, explorer who “rediscovered” the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru 1911 (Conirostrum).
● Lt.-Col. Charles Thomas Bingham (1848-1908) British Army, ornithologist, entomologist in India and Burma (subsp. Cyanoderma chrysaeum, syn. Ixos mcclellandii tickelli).