Yellow Grosbeak

SCI Name:  Pheucticus chrysopeplus
Protonym:  Coccothraustes chrysopeplus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.15 p.4
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Pheucticus
Taxonomy Code:  yelgro
Type Locality:  Mexico ; restricted to San Bias, Nayarit, by van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 480.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PHEUCTICUS
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Black-backed Grosbeak P. aureoventris) Gr. φευκτικος pheuktikos  shy, inclined to avoid  < φευγω pheugō  to flee. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVIII, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae Coccothraustinae, shows a variety of heavy-billed finches, but gives no clue as to the reasoning behind this generic tag; doubtless a clue will be found in earlier species accounts. "Pheucticus Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 78. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Pitylus aureoventris." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 217).
Var. Pheuticus.
Synon. Habia, Hedymeles, Zamelodia.

chrysopeplus
Gr. χρυσοπεπλος khrusopeplos  golden-robed  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; πεπλος peplos  robe.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow Grosbeak (Northern)
SCI Name: Pheucticus chrysopeplus chrysopeplus/dilutus
PHEUCTICUS
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Black-backed Grosbeak P. aureoventris) Gr. φευκτικος pheuktikos  shy, inclined to avoid  < φευγω pheugō  to flee. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVIII, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae Coccothraustinae, shows a variety of heavy-billed finches, but gives no clue as to the reasoning behind this generic tag; doubtless a clue will be found in earlier species accounts. "Pheucticus Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 78. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Pitylus aureoventris." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 217).
Var. Pheuticus.
Synon. Habia, Hedymeles, Zamelodia.

Yellow Grosbeak (Guatemalan)
SCI Name: Pheucticus chrysopeplus aurantiacus
aurantiaca / aurantiacus
Mod. L. aurantiacus orange-coloured < Late Med. L. aurantia orange.
● ex “Manakin orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pipra aureola).