White-throated Treerunner

SCI Name:  Pygarrhichas albogularis
Protonym:  Dendrocolaptes albo-gularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.3 p.30
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Pygarrhichas
Taxonomy Code:  whttre2
Type Locality:  no locality, but presumably from the Straits of Magellan.
Author:  King, PP
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PYGARRHICHAS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ White-throated Treerunner P. albogularis) Gr. πυγη pugē  rump; αρριχος arrhikhos  wicker basket; "Schwanzfedern steif, der Schaft hervorragend, dienen zum Anstemmen.  Dahin die neue Gatt.: Pygarrhichas Licht., im Aeußeren ganz wie Sitta.  P. ruficaudis, aus Columbien." (Burmeister 1837); "Schwanz mittelmäßig, Federn zugespitzt, Schaftspitzen herausragend, stechendspitzig." (Reichenbach 1853); "The tail is uniformly reddish chestnut, with 12 rectrices that are strongly stiffened and the rachis of which becomes increasingly rigid, and prolonged as a "spine" beyond the web, progressively from the outer rectrix inward; the spine averages about 7 mm in length on the central pair where it is best developed." (Vaurie 1980); "Pygarrhichas "Licht." Burmeister, Handb. Naturg., Abth. 2, 1837, p. 769. Type, by monotypy, Pygarrhichas ruficaudis Burmeister = Dendrocolaptes albo-gularis King." (Peters 1951, VII, 147).
Var. Pygarrhichus, Pygarrhicus, Pygarrichus.
Synon. Dendrodramus, Dromodendron.

albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.