Toxostoma Bendirei Bird

Bendire\'s Thrasher / Toxostoma bendirei

Toxostoma Bendirei Bird

English Name:  Bendire's Thrasher
Latin Name:  Toxostoma bendirei
Protonym:  Harporhynchus Bendirei Am.Nat. 7 p.330,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code:  benthr
Type Locality:  Tucson, Ariz.
Author:  Coues
Publish Year:  1873
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon   bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos  mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.)   54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova).  Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult.   Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.

bendirei
Maj. Charles Emil Bendire (1836-1897) German/US soldier, field naturalist, oologist, collector (syn. Falco columbarius, subsp. Loxia curvirostra, subsp. Megascops kennicottii, syn. Melospiza melodia fallax, Toxostoma).

SUBSPECIES

Bendire's Thrasher (bendirei)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei bendirei
bendirei
Maj. Charles Emil Bendire (1836-1897) German/US soldier, field naturalist, oologist, collector (syn. Falco columbarius, subsp. Loxia curvirostra, subsp. Megascops kennicottii, syn. Melospiza melodia fallax, Toxostoma).

Bendire's Thrasher (candidum)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei candidum
candidum / candidus
L. candidus  brilliant white, glittering white  < candere  to shine (cf. albus  dead white, matt white).
● ex “White Eagle” of du Pratz 1774, and Pennant 1787, and “Louisiane White Eagle” of Latham 1781 (syn. Aquila chrysaetos).

Bendire's Thrasher (rubricatum)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei rubricatum
rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus  red-ochred, ruddy  < rubrica  red-ochre  < ruber, rubra  red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).