Masked Mountain-Tanager

SCI Name:  Buthraupis wetmorei
Protonym:  Tephrophilus wetmorei Auk 51 p.2 pl.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Buthraupis
Taxonomy Code:  mamtan1
Type Locality:  southeastern end of Culebrillas Valley, northwest (20° N. of W.) of Mt. Sangay, Ecuador.
Author:  Moore, RT
Publish Year:  1934
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

BUTHRAUPIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Hooded Mountain Tanager B. montana) Gr. βου- bou-  great  < βους bous  ox (i.e. big); θραυπις thraupis  unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager; "Gen. BUTHRAUPIS  n. gen. *) Gross-Tangara.   198.  1. B. montana Nob.— Tanagra montana Orb. Lafr. Voy. Amer. merid. Ois. tab. 23. fig. 1.   ...   199.  2. B. eximia Nob. — Tanagra eximia Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840. p. 66. — Tanagra cucullata Jard. Selb. Jll. Orn. New Ser. tab. 43.   ...   *) Von βουσ, zur Bezeichnung der Grösse und θραυπισ, nom. prop.  Enthält die grössten Formen der Familie und unterscheidet sich ausserdem von Thraupis durch den kurzen, starken, höheren Schnabel, etwas abgerundeten Schwanz, Färbungsverschiedenheit u.s.w." (Cabanis 1853); "Buthraupis Cabanis, 1850 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1 (1851), p. 29. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 73), Tanagra montana Lafresnaye = Aglaia montana d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 327).

wetmorei
Dr Frank Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978) US ornithologist (Ara sp?, subsp. Catharus frantzii, subsp. Chlorospingus flavopectus, ‡Corvus, syn. Habia fuscicauda salvini, subsp. Megascops choliba, ‡Mycteria, syn. Myzomela rubratra major, subsp. Passerculus sandwichensis, syn. Patagioenas inornata, subsp. Phyllomyias zeledoni, subsp. Pycnonotus cafer, Rallus, Tephrophilus, subsp. Thamnophilus aethiops, Theristicus, subsp. Todirostrum cinereum, subsp. Troglodytes rufulus, subsp. Vireo pallens, subsp. Zosterops everetti).