Western Wood-Pewee

SCI Name:  Contopus sordidulus
Protonym:  Contopus sordidulus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)1 p.43
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Contopus
Taxonomy Code:  wewpew
Type Locality:  southern Mexico and Guatemala; type from Orizaba, Mexico, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 192.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CONTOPUS
(Tyrannidae; † Eastern Wood Pewee C. virens) Gr. κοντος kontos  pole, shaft; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "70. Contopus virens Cab.  Muscicapa virens Lin. Gm. — Muscicapa rapax Wils. — Tyrannula virens Jard. — Myiarchus virens Cab. — Bombito. "Ist sehr selten auf Cuba" Gundl.    [Diese Art bildet den Typus der Gattung Contopus.  Dieselbe schliesst sich näher als die folgenden Gruppen [Myiarchus] an die Tyrannen an, durch lange spitze Flügel.  Der Schwanz ist ausgerandet und die kurzen Läufe geben ein characteristisches Kennzeichen ab.   Hierher gehören ferner:  C. Cooperi. — Muscicapa Cooperi Nutt.    C. cinereus —  Platyrhynchus cinereus Spix.    C. ardesiacus. — Tyrannula ardosiaca Lafr." (Cabanis 1855); "Contopus (not Contipus MARSEUL, 1853) CABANIS, Journ. Orn., 3, p. 479, 1855— type by orig. desig. Muscicapa virens LINNAEUS." (Hellmayr, 1927, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. V, 190); "Contopus Cabanis, 1855, Journ. f. Ornith., 3, p. 479.  Type, by original designation, Muscicapa virens Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 127).
Var. Contopes, Conchopus.
Synon. Blacicus, Capnixus, Horizopus, Myiochanes, Nuttallornis, Planchesia, Syrichta, Syrichtha.

sordidulus
L. sordidulus  somewhat dirty, shabby  < dim. sordidus  dirty  < sordere  to be dirty  < sordes, sordis  dirt.

SUBSPECIES

Western Wood-Pewee (saturatus)
SCI Name: Contopus sordidulus saturatus
saturatum / saturatus
L. saturatus  richly coloured, darker coloured, intensely coloured  < satur, satura  rich, copious  < satis  enough.
● “In my description of this Cuckoo [Cuculus micropterus] ...I considered certain dark ash-coloured specimens to be merely the old birds of the species ...Mr Hodgson, however, thinks differently, having lately forwarded similar examples by the designation C. saturatus” (Blyth 1843) (Cuculus).

Western Wood-Pewee (veliei)
SCI Name: Contopus sordidulus veliei
veliei
Dr Jacob Wilbur Velie (1829-1908) US physician, naturalist, explorer, Secretary/ Curator of Chicago Academy of Sciences 1873-1896 (subsp. Contopus sordidulus).

Western Wood-Pewee (peninsulae)
SCI Name: Contopus sordidulus peninsulae
peninsulae
L. paeninsulae or peninsulae  peninsulas  < paeninsula or peninsula  peninsula  < paene  nearly, almost; insula  island.
● Indian peninsula, southern India (subsp. Accipiter trivirgatus).
● Malay peninsula, Malaysia/Thailand (Siam) (Alcedo, syn. Garrulax leucolophus diardi, syn. Garrulax lugubris, Trochalopteron).
● Florida, USA (subsp. Ammospiza maritima).
● Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Cardinalis sinuata, subsp. Contopus sordidulus).
● Kamchatka, Far East Region, Russia (syn. Cuculus saturatus).
● Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia (syn. Fregata minor palmerstoni, subsp. Geophaps scripta, subsp. Pachycephala griseiceps).
● Korea (syn. Troglodytes troglodytes dauricus).

Western Wood-Pewee (sordidulus)
SCI Name: Contopus sordidulus sordidulus
sordidulus
L. sordidulus  somewhat dirty, shabby  < dim. sordidus  dirty  < sordere  to be dirty  < sordes, sordis  dirt.