Plain-breasted Ground Dove

SCI Name:  Columbina minuta
Protonym:  Columba minuta Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.285
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Columbina
Taxonomy Code:  pbgdov1
Type Locality:  America = Santo Domingo ex Brisson ; error, Cayenne substituted as type locaUty by Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., 9, 1902, p. 119.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COLUMBINA
(Columbidae; † Picui Ground Dove C. picui strepitans) L. columbina  little dove  < dim. columba  dove; "Magnitudine passeris.   SPECIES 1. COLUMBINA STREPITANS.  ...  Corpus Merula fere duplo minus  ...  Habitat in campis Piauhy, mas foemina maior, alis Crotali horridi instar crepitans, ideoque ab incolis Cascavelha, ab Azara Picui nominata.    SPECIES 2. COLUMBINA CAMPESTRIS.  ...  Habitat gregaria in campis Bahiae, "Cabóclas" ab incolis denominata; foemina mare minor.    SPECIES 3. COLUMBINA CABOCOLO.  ...  Corpus praecedente vix maius  ...    SPECIES 4. COLUMBINA GRISEOLA.  ...  Habitat in sylviis fl. Amazonum." (von Spix 1825); "Columbina Spix, Av. Bras., 2, 1825, p. 57, 58.  Type, by subsequent designation, Columbina strepitans Spix. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., ed. 2, 1841, p. 75)." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 104).
Synon. Chaemepelia, Columbigallina, Columbula, Eupelia, Leptopelia, Oxypelia, Pyrgitoenas, Talpacotia.
• (Columbidae; syn. Columbina † Common Ground Dove C. passerina) "COLUMBINA, Spix (1826).  Chœmepelia, Swains.  Columba, L.  Goura, (Steph.) Bonap.  "Columbi gallina, Vieill." Boie.   C. passerina, (Lath.) n., Pl. enl. 243." (G. Gray 1840); "Columbina "Spix" G. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 58 (not of von Spix, 1825).  Type, by original designation, C. passerina (Lath.), i.e. Columba passerina Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
• (Columbidae; syn. Claravis † Purple-winged Ground Dove C. geoffroyi) "bb) Tauben von geringer Größe; dritte Handschwinge längste; Armschwingen sehr lang.   7. Gatt. Columbina (Col. Geoffroyi, Col. cinerea etc.)." (Streubel 1842); "Columbina Streubel, 1842, in Ersch and Gruber, Allgem. Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, sect. 3, XVII, p. 94 (not of von Spix, 1825, nor of G. Gray, 1840).  For the benefit of The Key, type here fixed by subsequent designation, Columba geoffroyi Temminck, 1811." (JAJ 2021).

columbina
L. columbina  little dove  < dim. columba  dove.

minuta
L. minutus  small, little  < minuere to make smaller (see also minutus).
● ex "Petit Coucou de Cayenne" of Brisson 1760 (Coccycua).
● ex “Petite Tourtourelle brun d’Amérique” of Brisson 1760 (Columbina).
● ex “Little Rail” of Latham 1785 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● "61. ANAS.  ...  minuta.  31. A. grisea, auribus albis, remigibus primoribus nigricantibus.  Anas canadensis minor fuscus. Edw. av. 157. t. 157.  Habitat in Canada.  Parva admodum, tota grisea. Punctum album ad aures utrinque. An prioris femina?" (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Histrionicus histrionicus ♀).
● ex “Gobe-moucheron” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Petty Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Myrmotherula brachyura).
● ex “Pico grueso pardo y canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 122 (syn. Sporophila hypoxantha).
● ex “Loxia grisea, uropygio subtusque ferruginea, remigibus 4, 5, 6, basi utrinque albis, cauda integra” of Rolander MS (Sporophila).
● ex “Larus piscator” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713 (syn. Sternula albifrons).

SUBSPECIES

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (interrupta)
SCI Name: Columbina minuta interrupta
interrupta / interruptus
L. interruptus  interrupted  < interrumpere  to sever.
● "There is no longer the slightest question that this ground dove has an interrupted distribution in Central America, and is absent, from most of the country at least, between Guatemala and south-western Costa Rica." (Griscom 1929) (subsp. Columbina minuta).

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (elaeodes)
SCI Name: Columbina minuta elaeodes
elaeodes
Gr. ελαιωδης elaiōdēs  oleaginous, olivaceous  < ελαια elaia  olive; -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "Chæmepelia minuta elæodes subsp. nov.  ...  Both sexes in fresh plumage are glossed above with dark olive-green." (Todd 1913)  (subsp. Columbina minuta).

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (minuta)
SCI Name: Columbina minuta minuta
minuta
L. minutus  small, little  < minuere to make smaller (see also minutus).
● ex "Petit Coucou de Cayenne" of Brisson 1760 (Coccycua).
● ex “Petite Tourtourelle brun d’Amérique” of Brisson 1760 (Columbina).
● ex “Little Rail” of Latham 1785 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● "61. ANAS.  ...  minuta.  31. A. grisea, auribus albis, remigibus primoribus nigricantibus.  Anas canadensis minor fuscus. Edw. av. 157. t. 157.  Habitat in Canada.  Parva admodum, tota grisea. Punctum album ad aures utrinque. An prioris femina?" (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Histrionicus histrionicus ♀).
● ex “Gobe-moucheron” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Petty Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Myrmotherula brachyura).
● ex “Pico grueso pardo y canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 122 (syn. Sporophila hypoxantha).
● ex “Loxia grisea, uropygio subtusque ferruginea, remigibus 4, 5, 6, basi utrinque albis, cauda integra” of Rolander MS (Sporophila).
● ex “Larus piscator” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713 (syn. Sternula albifrons).

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (amazilia)
SCI Name: Columbina minuta amazilia
AMAZILIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Cinnamon Hummingbird A. rutila) Specific name Ornismya amazilia Lesson, 1828 (see amazilia); "Race: Les AMAZILIS, amazilia, Less.  — (pl. 73.) L'ois. mouche lumachelle: Ornysmia lumachella, Less., rev. zool. p. 315. Hab.: Bahia.   — (pl. 74.) L'ois. mouche beau: Ornysmia eximia, Delattre, écho, 1813, Hab.: Guatimala.   — (pl. 75) L'ois. mouche canelle: Ornysmia cinnamomea, Less., rev. zoolog., 1842, p. 175; Orn. rufula, Delattre, écho, 1843. Hab: Acapulco, Guatimala.     (pl. 76) L'ois. m. Clarisse: Ornysmia clarisse, Longuemare, rev. zool., 1841, p. 306. H. Santa-Fe-de-Bogota." (Lesson 1843); "Amazilia Lesson, Écho du Monde Sav., 1843, col. 757. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cinnamomea Lesson = Ornismia rutila DeLattre. (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philas., 1918, p. 256.)" (Peters 1945, V, p. 61).  I have elsewhere suggested that the substantive name Amazili be given to the hummingbirds of this genus.  
Var. Amazillia.   
Synon. Agyrtria, Albanora, Amazilicus, Amazilina, Amazilius, Amizilis, Arena, Arenella, Ariadne, Ariana, Chionogaster, Chionomesa, Cyanomyia, Elliotia, Eranna, Eratina, Eratopis, Erythronota, Eucephala, Hemistilbon, Hemithylaca, Hypochionis, Leucodora, Lisoria, Myletes, Polyerata, Pyrrhophaena, Saucerottia, Uranomitra.