Olive-crowned Crescentchest

SCI Name:  Melanopareia maximiliani
Protonym:  Synallaxis Maximiliani Voy.Am.merid. livr.36 p.247
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Melanopareiidae / Melanopareia
Taxonomy Code:  olccre1
Type Locality:  summit of Mt. Biscachal, near Carcuata, Yungas, Bolivia.
Author:  d'Orbigny
Publish Year:  1835
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELANOPAREIA
(Melanopareiidae; Ϯ Olive-crowned Crescentchest M. maximiliani) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; παρηιον parēion  cheek; "LXXXII. Melanopareia RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel etwas stärker, ein wenig gekrümmt, Schwanz stark abgerundet, fast gestutzt. Kleid eigenthümlich: Wangen und Gurgelquerband schwarz, Schulterfederchen weiß, Beine fleischfarben gelblich.— Andeutung der Gattung Thamnophilus, nach des Beobachters D'ORBIGNY eigener Bemerkung.    367. M. Maximiliani (Synall. — D'ORBG. voy. 247. S. torquata Synops. et pl. 15. 1.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3619.   ...   368. M. torquata (Synall. —us M. N.-W. Beitr. III. 697.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3620." (Reichenbach 1853); "Melanopareia Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 164. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis maximiliani d'Orbigny (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters 1951, VII, 281).
Synon. Rhoporchilis.

maximiliani
● Maximilian I Joseph Count-Palatine of Zweibrücken Prince-Elector and King of Bavaria (1756-1825; reigned 1799-1825) (syn. Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).
● Maj.-Gen. Maximilian Alexander Philipp Graf zu Wied-Neuwied and Prinz zu Wied (1782-1867) Prussian Army, collector, explorer in Brazil 1815-1817 and North America 1832-1834 (syn. Conopophaga melanops, syn. Laniocera hypopyrra, Melanopareia, ‡syn. Neomorphus geoffroyi (Laurent Raty in litt.), subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, Pionus, syn. Riparia riparia, Sporophila (ex Fringilla crassirostris zu Wied, 1830), syn. Thraupis cyanocephala).
● Maximilian Josèph Eugéne Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852) 3rd Duke of Leuchtenburg, 3rd Prince of Eichstätt, and Prince Romanovsky, husband to Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia (?syn. Trochilus sp.)

SUBSPECIES

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (maximiliani)
SCI Name: Melanopareia maximiliani maximiliani
maximiliani
● Maximilian I Joseph Count-Palatine of Zweibrücken Prince-Elector and King of Bavaria (1756-1825; reigned 1799-1825) (syn. Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).
● Maj.-Gen. Maximilian Alexander Philipp Graf zu Wied-Neuwied and Prinz zu Wied (1782-1867) Prussian Army, collector, explorer in Brazil 1815-1817 and North America 1832-1834 (syn. Conopophaga melanops, syn. Laniocera hypopyrra, Melanopareia, ‡syn. Neomorphus geoffroyi (Laurent Raty in litt.), subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, Pionus, syn. Riparia riparia, Sporophila (ex Fringilla crassirostris zu Wied, 1830), syn. Thraupis cyanocephala).
● Maximilian Josèph Eugéne Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852) 3rd Duke of Leuchtenburg, 3rd Prince of Eichstätt, and Prince Romanovsky, husband to Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia (?syn. Trochilus sp.)

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (argentina)
SCI Name: Melanopareia maximiliani argentina
argentina / argentinae / argentinus
● Mod. L. argentinus  of silver, silvery  < L. argentum, argenti  silver (cf. Roman myth. Argentinus, god of silver) (Columba).
● Mod. L. Argentinus  Argentinian, of Argentina (subsp. Batara cinerea, subsp. Chlorospingus flavopectus, subsp. Cyanoloxia brissonii, subsp. Empidonax euleri, Melanopareia, subsp. Muscisaxicola cinereus, subsp. Myiothlypis bivittata, subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, syn. Thamnophilus ruficapillus cochabambae, syn. Xiphocolaptes albicollis, syn. Zonotrichia capensis hypoleuca).

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (pallida)
SCI Name: Melanopareia maximiliani pallida
pallida
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.