Loggerhead Kingbird

SCI Name:  Tyrannus caudifasciatus
Protonym:  Tyrannus caudifasciatus Hist.IslaCuba[Sagra] 3 p.70 pl.12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Tyrannus
Taxonomy Code:  logkin
Type Locality:  Cuba.
Author:  d'Orbigny
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TYRANNUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eastern Kingbird T. tyrannus) Based on "Le Tyran.    Tyrannus" of Brisson 1760: "Tandis que la femelle couve, le mâle chasse d'auprès de son nid tous les Oiseaux; même les Faucons & les Aigles." (see tyrannus ●); "NEUVIÈME ORDRE.  Bec échancré.   24. PIE-GRIÈCHE. Lanius.   ...   25.TYRAN. Tyrannus. {Le bec long, droit, et garni de soies à sa base.    26. GOBE-MOUCHE. Muscicapa.   ...   27. MOUCHEROLLE. Muscivora" (de Lacépède 1799); "Tyrannus Lacepède, 1799, Tabl. Méth. Mamm. Ois., p. 5. Type, by tautonymy, Lanius tyrannus Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 221). The tyrants, pittas, broadbills and their allies form a very distinct group and should, perhaps, be separated from other passerines in a new order Subosciniformes.
Var. Tirannus, Tiranus, Tryannus.
Synon. Despotes, Dioctes, Drymonax, Laphyctes, Melittarchus, Milvulus, Muscivora, Myiocapta, Satellus, Semnarchus, Tolmarchus.

tyrannus
L. tyrannus  tyrant  < Gr. τυραννος turannos  tyrant.
● ex “Tyran à queue fourchue” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Tyrannus savana).
● “The courage of this little bird is singular. He pursues and puts to flight all kinds of birds that come near his station, from the smallest to the largest, none escaping his fury” (Catesby 1731); "43. LANIUS.  ...  Tyrannus.  4. L. vertice nigro: stria longitudinali fulva.  Muscicapa corona rubra. Catesb. car. I. p. 55. t. 55.  Pica americana cristata. Frisch. av. 4. t. 62.  Habitat in America septentrionali.  Color obscure cinereus, abdomine albo." (Linnaeus 1758)  (Tyrannus).

caudifasciatus
L. cauda tail; Late L. fasciatus banded < L. fascia band.

SUBSPECIES

Loggerhead Kingbird (Loggerhead)
SCI Name: Tyrannus caudifasciatus [caudifasciatus Group]
TYRANNUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eastern Kingbird T. tyrannus) Based on "Le Tyran.    Tyrannus" of Brisson 1760: "Tandis que la femelle couve, le mâle chasse d'auprès de son nid tous les Oiseaux; même les Faucons & les Aigles." (see tyrannus ●); "NEUVIÈME ORDRE.  Bec échancré.   24. PIE-GRIÈCHE. Lanius.   ...   25.TYRAN. Tyrannus. {Le bec long, droit, et garni de soies à sa base.    26. GOBE-MOUCHE. Muscicapa.   ...   27. MOUCHEROLLE. Muscivora" (de Lacépède 1799); "Tyrannus Lacepède, 1799, Tabl. Méth. Mamm. Ois., p. 5. Type, by tautonymy, Lanius tyrannus Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 221). The tyrants, pittas, broadbills and their allies form a very distinct group and should, perhaps, be separated from other passerines in a new order Subosciniformes.
Var. Tirannus, Tiranus, Tryannus.
Synon. Despotes, Dioctes, Drymonax, Laphyctes, Melittarchus, Milvulus, Muscivora, Myiocapta, Satellus, Semnarchus, Tolmarchus.

Loggerhead Kingbird (Puerto Rican)
SCI Name: Tyrannus caudifasciatus taylori
taylori
● Dr Sir George Taylor (1904-1993) Scottish botanist, collector, Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh 1956-1971 (subsp. Chloris ambigua).
● Claude H. Taylor (fl. 1914) South African naturalist, collector (syn. Chlorophoneus olivaceus).
● Frank Mansfield Taylor (1850-1930) US businessman, patron and President of Colorado Mus. of Natural History 1916-1930 (subsp. Colinus virginianus).
● Frederic William Taylor (1876-1944) US agronomist, botanist, Director- Gen. of El Salvador Agriculture 1923-1927 (subsp. Dactylortyx thoracicus).
● Charles B. Taylor (fl. 1896) collector in Jamaica and Cayman Is. (Pyrrhulagra, syn. Trochilus polytmus).
● Anthony Taylor (fl. 1884) collector in Ecuador (subsp. Tangara ruficervix).
● Edward Cavendish Taylor (1831-1905) English ornithologist, traveller, collector in the West Indies 1862-1863 (subsp. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).

Loggerhead Kingbird (Hispaniolan)
SCI Name: Tyrannus caudifasciatus gabbii
gabbii
Prof. William More Gabb (1839-1878) US palaeontologist, mineralogist, geological surveyor in Santo Domingo 1869-1872 and Costa Rica 1873-1876 (subsp. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).