Snowy Egret

SCI Name:  Egretta thula
Protonym:  Ardea Thula SaggioStoriaNat.Chile p.235
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Egretta
Taxonomy Code:  snoegr
Type Locality:  Chile.
Author:  Molina
Publish Year:  1782
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EGRETTA
(Ardeidae; † Little Egret E. garzetta) French Aigrette  egret  < dim. Provençal Aigron  heron; "EGRETTA GARZETTA?  The Egret?" (T. Forster 1817); "Egretta T. Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Bds., 1817, p. 59.  Type, by monotypy, Ardea garzetta Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 110).   
Var. Egetta.   
Synon. Demigretta, Dichromanassa, Erodius, Florida, Garzetta, Glaucerodius, Hemiegretta, Hemigarzetta, Herodias, Hydranassa, Lepterodas, Leucophoyx, Melanophoyx, Notophoyx.

egretta
French Aigrette  egret  < dim. Provençal Aigron  heron.
● ex “Guiratinga” of Ray 1713, “Grande Aigrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925, “Grande Aigrette” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Great Egret” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (subsp. Ardea alba).

thula
Araucano name Thula for the Black-necked Swan Sthenelides melancoryphus, but given to the Snowy Egret in error by Molina 1782: “Ardea Thula, nome, che viene dalla lingua Chilese” (Egretta).

SUBSPECIES

Snowy Egret (thula)
SCI Name: Egretta thula thula
thula
Araucano name Thula for the Black-necked Swan Sthenelides melancoryphus, but given to the Snowy Egret in error by Molina 1782: “Ardea Thula, nome, che viene dalla lingua Chilese” (Egretta).

Snowy Egret (brewsteri)
SCI Name: Egretta thula brewsteri
brewsteri
William Brewster (1851-1919) US ornithologist, collector, field naturalist, founder member of AOU, President of first Audubon Society 1896 (subsp. Egretta thula, subsp. Empidonax traillii, syn. Megascops kennicottii, subsp. Melanerpes uropygialis, subsp. Psittacara holochlorus, subsp. Saltator olivascens, subsp. Setophaga petechia, Siphonorhis, Spinus pinus x Acanthis flammea, subsp. Sula leucogaster, syn. Tympanuchus cupido, subsp. Vireo gilvus).