Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Anairetes flavirostris
Protonym:  Anaeretes flavirostris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.355
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Anairetes
Taxonomy Code:  ybttyr1
Type Locality:  Tilotilo, Yungas of La Paz, Bolivia.
Author:  Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ANAIRETES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Tufted Tit Tyrant A. parulus) Gr. αναιρετης anairetēs  destroyer (i.e. tyrant). Illustrated in Reichenbach 1850, plate LXVI, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, with other tyrant flycatchers, this epithet seems scarcely warranted for the small Tufted Tit Tyrant, although it does tend towards aggression during the breeding season; "Anairetes Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 66. Type, by subsequent designation (Sclater, 1888, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., 14, p. 106), Anairetes parulus." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 45); G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 50, treated this name under Serpophaga, and gave the type as S. albocoronata Gould, 1839 = Muscicapa straminea Temminck, 1822 (now a subsp. of S. subcristata), but Reichenbach's plate cannot be identified with this bird.  I have elsewhere suggested that the birds of this genus be given the substantive name of Cachudito (from the Spanish cachudito  little long-horn).
Var. Anaeretes.
Synon. Spizitornis, Yanacea.

flavirostre / flavirostris
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Pato pico amarillo y negro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 439 (Anas).
● "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  flavirostris.  21. F. fusca, rostro flavicante. Faun. svec. 204.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Linaria).
● ex “Favorite de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 897, “Favorite” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Favourite Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (Porphyrio).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant (huancabambae)
SCI Name: Anairetes flavirostris huancabambae
huancabambae
Río Huancabamba, Peru.

Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant (arequipae)
SCI Name: Anairetes flavirostris arequipae
arequipae
Arequipa, southern Peru.

Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant (cuzcoensis)
SCI Name: Anairetes flavirostris cuzcoensis
cuzcoensis
Cuzco, Peru.

Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant (flavirostris)
SCI Name: Anairetes flavirostris flavirostris
flavirostre / flavirostris
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Pato pico amarillo y negro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 439 (Anas).
● "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  flavirostris.  21. F. fusca, rostro flavicante. Faun. svec. 204.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Linaria).
● ex “Favorite de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 897, “Favorite” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Favourite Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (Porphyrio).