Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush

SCI Name:  Catharus frantzii
Protonym:  Catharus Frantzii J.Orn. 8(1860) no.47 p.323
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Catharus
Taxonomy Code:  rcnthr1
Type Locality:  Volcan del Irazu.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1861
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CATHARUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush C. aurantiirostris) Gr. καθαρος katharos  pure, clean; alluding to the immaculate brown and white plumage of the Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush; "577. Catharus, Bp. (Turdus, p. Auct.) Rostrum Turdorum: pedes elongati, robusti: alae breves, rotundatae; remigum prima octavum aequante; tertia, quarta et quinta omnium longissimis: cauda brevis, rotundata.   America mer.  1.  *TURDUS immaculatus, Bp. Mus. Lugd. ex Caraccas.   Similis T. minoribus Amer. s. sed absque macularum vel suspicione. Rufo-olivaceus: subtus albus; pectore, lateribusque ardosiaceis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Catharus Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Av., 1 (1850), p. 278. Type, by monotypy, Turdus immaculatus Bonaparte = Turdus aurantiirostris Hartlaub." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 164).
Synon. Malacocichla.

frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).

SUBSPECIES

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (frantzii)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii frantzii
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (confusus)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii confusus
confusa / confusus
L. confusus confused < confundere to mix.
● Specimens of the Greater Snow Petrel in the British Museum had previously been confused with those of the Lesser Snow Petrel (Pagodroma).

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (nelsoni)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii nelsoni
nelsoni
• Dr Edward William Nelson (1855-1934) US zoologist, collector in US and Mexico, President of AOU 1908, and Chief of US Biological Survey 1916-1927 (subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, Ammospiza, syn. Antrostomus badius, subsp. Campephilus guatemalensis, subsp. Campylorhynchus megalopterus, subsp. Catharus frantzii, syn. Colinus virginianus insignis, subsp. Cyanocorax sanblasianus, syn. Dryobates pubescens medianus, subsp. Eupherusa eximia, Geothlypis, subsp. Habia rubica, subsp. Icterus cucullatus, subsp. Lagopus mutum, syn. Lanius ludovicianus mexicanus, syn. Larus vegae x L. hyperboreus hybrid, subsp. Lochmias nematura, syn. Myiarchus tyrannulus cooperi, syn. Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis, subsp. Onychoprion anaethetus, syn. Phaethornis striigularis subrufescens, subsp. Polioptila caerulea, subsp. Quiscalus mexicanus, subsp. Sialia mexicana, subsp. Sitta carolinensis, subsp. Tunchiornis ochraceiceps, Vireo (ex Vireo nanus Nelson, 1898)).
• George Nelson (1876-1962) US botanist, zoologist, photographer, taxidermist at MCZ, Harvard College 1901-1946 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Setophaga vitellina).

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (chiapensis)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii chiapensis
chiapensis
Chiapas, Mexico.

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (juancitonis)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii juancitonis
juancitonis
San Juancito, Honduras.

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (waldroni)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii waldroni
waldronae / waldroni
● Frances Waldron (fl. 1935) British zoologist at BMNH, collector in West Africa 1934-1935 (subsp. Anthoscopus flavifrons).
● Waldron De Witt Miller (1879-1929) US zoologist (subsp. Catharus frantzii).

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (wetmorei)
SCI Name: Catharus frantzii wetmorei
wetmorei
Dr Frank Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978) US ornithologist (Ara sp?, subsp. Catharus frantzii, subsp. Chlorospingus flavopectus, ‡Corvus, syn. Habia fuscicauda salvini, subsp. Megascops choliba, ‡Mycteria, syn. Myzomela rubratra major, subsp. Passerculus sandwichensis, syn. Patagioenas inornata, subsp. Phyllomyias zeledoni, subsp. Pycnonotus cafer, Rallus, Tephrophilus, subsp. Thamnophilus aethiops, Theristicus, subsp. Todirostrum cinereum, subsp. Troglodytes rufulus, subsp. Vireo pallens, subsp. Zosterops everetti).