Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Mountain Chickadee
SCI Name:
Protonym: Parus gambeli Am.Orn.UnionChk-Lst.N.Am.Birds.ed.1 ed.1 p.335
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paridae / Poecile
Taxonomy Code: mouchi
Type Locality: about one day''s journey west of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Author: Ridgway
Publish Year: 1886
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris. ... 4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris). E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes. Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder. L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen. ... **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829 M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.
gambeli / gambelii / gambelli / gambellii
William Gambel, Jr. (1821-1849) US explorer, naturalist, collector in North America (subsp. Anser albifrons, Callipepla, syn. Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides, Poecile, subsp. Zonotrichia leucophrys, syn. Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli).
SUBSPECIES
Mountain Chickadee (Rocky Mts.)
SCI Name: Poecile gambeli [gambeli Group]
POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris. ... 4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris). E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes. Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder. L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen. ... **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829 M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.
Mountain Chickadee (Sierra Nevada)
SCI Name: Poecile gambeli [baileyae Group]
POECILE
(Paridae; Ϯ Marsh Tit P. palustris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos colourful (cf. ποικιλις poikilis, ποικιλιδος poikilidos unknown small bird, fancifully said to eat lark eggs, perhaps a type of finch); "4. Parus ater, palustris. ... 4. Dohlenmeise. Poecile**). (Parus ater et palustris). E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Parus und Cyanistes. Ch[arakter]. Kleine Meisen mit glattem schwarzem Kopfe, kurzem Schwanz und aschgraulichem Gefieder. L[ebensart]. Hierin ähneln sie den übrigen Meisen. ... **) ποικιλος, bunt." (Kaup 1829); "POECILE Kaup, 1829 M — Parus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, Appendix to a list of the Genera of Birds, p. 8)." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 428).
Var. Paecila, Poecila, Poecilia, Poekilis, Peocile.
Synon. Penthestes, Phaeopharus, Poeciloides.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)