Paint-billed Crake

SCI Name:  Mustelirallus erythrops
Protonym:  Porzana erythrops Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.343 pl.21
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Rallidae / Mustelirallus
Taxonomy Code:  pabcra
Type Locality:  Lima, Peru.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1867
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Mustelirallus
(syn. Porzana Ϯ Ash-throated Crake P. albicollis) Specific name Crex mustelina Lichtenstein, 1823 (= syn. Porzana albicollis); genus Rallus Linnaeus, 1758, rail; "116. Mustelirallus, Bp.   353. albicollis, Vieill.  (gularis, Jard. nec Cuv.  mustelina, Licht.  cinereus, Less.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Mustelirallus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, p. 599, 1856—type, by monotypy, Rallus albicollis Vieillot." (Hellmayr & Conover 1942, XIII, 361).   Var. Mustellirallus.

erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye, face, countenance.

Erythrops
(Sylviidae; syn. Chrysomma † Yellow-eyed Babbler C. sinense hypoleucum) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos eye; "2. PYCTORHIS.   Erythrops, Hodgs. MSS.   Pyctoris, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24.   Chrysomma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845) . . . Type. P. sinensis" (Sharpe 1883); "Erythrops "Hodgs. MSS." = Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 510. In synonymy with Pyctoris Hodgson, i.e. Blyth. Not Erythrops Rafinesque, 1820, Pisces, nor Erythrops Sars, 1869, Crustacea." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 327).

SUBSPECIES

Paint-billed Crake (olivascens)
SCI Name: Mustelirallus erythrops olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

Paint-billed Crake (erythrops)
SCI Name: Mustelirallus erythrops erythrops
erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye, face, countenance.