Russet Nightingale-Thrush

SCI Name:  Catharus occidentalis
Protonym:  Catharus occidentalis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)2 p.323
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Catharus
Taxonomy Code:  runthr1
Type Locality:  Totontepec, Oaxaca.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1859
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.

occidentale / occidentalis
L. occidentalis  western  < occidens, occidentis  west  < occidere  to set. This toponym was frequently given to taxa discovered in locations west of previously known populations.
● Cocal, Western Andes, Colombia (Dysithamnus).
● Jamaica; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus fuscus” of Sloane 1725, “Pelican of America” of Edwards 1747, and “Pelecanus” of Browne 1756 (Pelecanus).
● TL. Day Dawn, Western Australia; "Westralian Wedgebill" (Mathews 1912) (Psophodes).

SUBSPECIES

Russet Nightingale-Thrush (olivascens)
SCI Name: Catharus occidentalis olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

Russet Nightingale-Thrush (lambi)
SCI Name: Catharus occidentalis lambi
lambi
Chester Converse Lamb (1882-1965) US zoologist, Assistant Curator of Mammals, Mus. Vertebrate Zoology 1925-1932, collector in Mexico (syn. Aimophila ruficeps canescens, subsp. Asio stygius, subsp. Catharus occidentalis, syn. Dendrocopos scalaris, subsp. Megascops asio, subsp. Nyctibius jamaicensis).

Russet Nightingale-Thrush (fulvescens)
SCI Name: Catharus occidentalis fulvescens
fulvescens
Med. L. fulvescens, fulvescentis  glowing yellow  < fulvescere  to glow yellow  < L. fulvus  tawny.
● See: furvescens

Russet Nightingale-Thrush (occidentalis)
SCI Name: Catharus occidentalis occidentalis
occidentale / occidentalis
L. occidentalis  western  < occidens, occidentis  west  < occidere  to set. This toponym was frequently given to taxa discovered in locations west of previously known populations.
● Cocal, Western Andes, Colombia (Dysithamnus).
● Jamaica; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus fuscus” of Sloane 1725, “Pelican of America” of Edwards 1747, and “Pelecanus” of Browne 1756 (Pelecanus).
● TL. Day Dawn, Western Australia; "Westralian Wedgebill" (Mathews 1912) (Psophodes).