Grace's Warbler

SCI Name:  Setophaga graciae
Protonym:  Dendroica graciae Rev.Am.Birds 1 p.210
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Setophaga
Taxonomy Code:  grawar
Type Locality:  Fort Whipple, near Prescott, Arizona.
Author:  Baird, SF
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SETOPHAGA
(Parulidae; Ϯ American Redstart S. ruticilla) Gr. σης sēs, σητος sētos  moth; -φαγος -phagos  -eating  < φαγειν phagein  to eat; "G. SETOPHAGA.  Sw. in Zool. Journ. No. 10.    17. Setophaga ruticilla.  Muscicapa ruticilla, Lin. mas.  M. flavicaudæ. Gm. fem. Maritime parts.   18. Setophaga miniata.  Cinereous, breast and body beneath vermilion; tail black, the lateral tail feathers partly white.  Table land: woods of Valadolid; rare, size of the last.   19. Setophaga rubra.  Entirely red, ear feathers of a silky whiteness. Inhabits the same woods, and is of the same size as the last." (Swainson 1827 (May)); "SETOPHAGA.  Rostrum parvum; culmine carinato. Alæ mediocres; remigibus 1^ma et 4^ta æqualibus, 2^da et 3^tia æqualibus, longissimis. Cauda sub-elongata, rotundata. Pedes graciles, tarsis squamis anterioribus divisis, lateralibus integris.  ...  Type. Muscicapa ruticilla. Linn.  ...  It represents, in the new world, the Australian genus Rhipidura" (Swainson 1827 (July)); "Setophaga Swainson, 1827 (May), Philos. Mag., new ser., 1, fasc. 5, p. 368. Type, by subsequent designation (Swainson, 1827 (July), Zool. Journ., 3, p. 360), Motacilla ruticilla Linnaeus." (Lowery & Monroe in Peters 1968, XIV, 33). Doubtless time will soften the dismay of birdwatchers caused by the absorption of Dendroica, Parula and Wilsonia into Setophaga.
Var. Cetophaga.   
Synon. Agreocantor, Azuria, Caeruleocantor, Chloris, Chrysocantor, Compsothlypis, Dendroica, Fruticantor, Lineocantor, Maculocantor, Myioctonus, Myiodioctes, Neodendroica, Parula, Perissoglossa, Piceacantor, Pinacantor, Ruticilla, Sylvania, Sylvicola, Sylviocantor, Sylviparus, Terracantor, Vireocantor, Wilsonia.

graciae
Grace Darling Page née Coues (1847-1925) sister of US ornithologist Dr Elliott Coues (Setophaga).

SUBSPECIES

Grace's Warbler (graciae)
SCI Name: Setophaga graciae graciae
graciae
Grace Darling Page née Coues (1847-1925) sister of US ornithologist Dr Elliott Coues (Setophaga).

Grace's Warbler (yaegeri)
SCI Name: Setophaga graciae yaegeri
yaegeri
Lewis D. Yaeger (fl. 1941) US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Catharus mexicanus, subsp. Icterus pustulatus, subsp. Setophaga graciae).

Grace's Warbler (remota)
SCI Name: Setophaga graciae remota
remota / remotum / remotus
L. remotus  distant, remote  < removere  to put away.

Grace's Warbler (decora)
SCI Name: Setophaga graciae decora
decora
L. decorus  beautiful  < decor, decoris  grace, beauty  < decet  it is seemly.