Red-breasted Chat

SCI Name:  Granatellus venustus
Protonym:  Granatellus venustus Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.312
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Granatellus
Taxonomy Code:  rebcha1
Type Locality:  Mexico; restricted to Comitan, Chiapas, by van Rossem, 1940, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 53, p. 14.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GRANATELLUS
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Red-breasted Chat G. venustus) Dim. < Med. L. granatus  garnet; "*664. Granatellus Dubus.  Rostrum longulum, curvum, compressum, vibrissis nullis: pedes graciles, digitis brevibus: alae brevissimae, rotundatae: cauda longa, rotundata.  Ad Nemosiam et Tanagrellam Tanagridarum proxime accedit!   Mexico.  1.   *Granatellus venustus, Dubus, Esq. Orn. t. 34. Mus. Bruxell. ex Mexico.  Ardesiacus; loris genisque nigris: vitta utrinque postoculari, gula nigro-marginata, lateribusque albis: pectore, medio abdominis, crissoque rubro-roseis: cauda nigra; rectricibus tribus extimis apice albis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Granatellus Bonaparte (ex Du Bus MS), 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 312. Type, by monotypy, Granatellus venustus Bonaparte." (Lowery & Monroe in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 79).

venustus
L. venustus  beautiful, lovely  < venus  loveliness.

SUBSPECIES

Red-breasted Chat (Red-breasted)
SCI Name: Granatellus venustus venustus
venustus
L. venustus  beautiful, lovely  < venus  loveliness.

Red-breasted Chat (Tres Marias)
SCI Name: Granatellus venustus francescae
francescae
Frances Jane Grayson née Timmons (1823-1908) pioneer wife of US ornithologist Andrew J. Grayson (Granatellus, syn. Saltator grandis vigorsii).
● See: fanny