Long-tailed Mockingbird

SCI Name:  Mimus longicaudatus
Protonym:  M[imus]. longicaudatus Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.280
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Mimus
Taxonomy Code:  lotmoc1
Type Locality:  in Republica Peruana. Lima, Peru, suggested by Hellmayr, 1934, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 7, p. 325.
Author:  von Tschudi
Publish Year:  1844
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.

longicaudata / longicaudatus
L. longus  long; caudatus  tailed  < cauda  tail.

SUBSPECIES

Long-tailed Mockingbird (platensis)
SCI Name: Mimus longicaudatus platensis
platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).

Long-tailed Mockingbird (albogriseus)
SCI Name: Mimus longicaudatus albogriseus
albogrisea / albogriseus
L. albus  white; Med. L. griseum  grey.

Long-tailed Mockingbird (longicaudatus)
SCI Name: Mimus longicaudatus longicaudatus
longicaudata / longicaudatus
L. longus  long; caudatus  tailed  < cauda  tail.

Long-tailed Mockingbird (maranonicus)
SCI Name: Mimus longicaudatus maranonicus
maranonica / smaranonicum / maranonicus
Río Marañón, Peru. The Tupí originally applied the name Maranon to the Rio Parana in Brazil; it was later used of the main Amazon, and is now the name of the upper or Peruvian reaches of that river.