Great Elaenia

SCI Name:  Elaenia dayi
Protonym:  Elaenia dayi Am.Mus.Novit. no.341 p.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Elaenia
Taxonomy Code:  greela1
Type Locality:  summit of Cerro Roraima, 8,600 ft., Venezuela.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1929
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos  of olive-oil, oleaginous  < ελαια elaia  olive; "Elænia n. g. ⁶)  Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd.  Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles.   ...    ⁶) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta.  Membrana narium plumulis tecta.  Vibrissæ tenues.  Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus.  Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis.  Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).  
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, Elana, Elania.

dayi
Col. Lee Garnett Day (1890-1966) US financier, explorer in Brazil 1914, sponsor of expeditions to tropical America 1915, 1927 (Capito, Elaenia).

SUBSPECIES

Great Elaenia (tyleri)
SCI Name: Elaenia dayi tyleri
tyleri
Sidney Frederick Tyler, Jr. (1907-1993) US banker, sponsor and member of Tyler-Duida Expedition 1928-1929 (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Elaenia dayi).

Great Elaenia (auyantepui)
SCI Name: Elaenia dayi auyantepui
auyantepui
Auyan-tepui, Bolívar, Venezuela.

Great Elaenia (dayi)
SCI Name: Elaenia dayi dayi
dayi
Col. Lee Garnett Day (1890-1966) US financier, explorer in Brazil 1914, sponsor of expeditions to tropical America 1915, 1927 (Capito, Elaenia).