Drymornis Bridgesii Bird

Drymornis Bridgesii Bird

Drymornis Bridgesii Bird

English Name:  Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper
Latin Name:  Drymornis bridgesii
Protonym:  Nasica bridgesii Contrib.Orn.[Jardine](1849) -1849 p.130 pl.38
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Drymornis
Taxonomy Code:  scbwoo4
Type Locality:  Interior of Bolivia; error, the type probably was taken in Mendoza, fide Hellmayr.
Author:  Eyton
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DRYMORNIS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper D. bridgesii) Gr. δρυμος drumos  woodland, copse; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "DRYMORNIS, EYTON.   Bill long, moderately arcuated, slender, somewhat quadrate, one of the angles forming the upper ridge, fourth quill longest.    bridgesii, Nob.    pucherani, Lafres." (Eyton 1852); "Drymornis Eyton, Contr. Orn. for 1852, 1853, p. 23. Type, by subsequent designation, Nasica bridgesii Eyton (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 29)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 24).

bridgesi / bridgesii
Dr Thomas Charles Bridges (1807-1865) English botanist, zoologist, collector in tropical America 1822-1865 (syn. Ara rubrogenys, Drymornis, syn. Larus modestus, subsp. Penelope obscura, syn. Pionus maximiliani siy, Thamnophilus, syn. Upucerthia andaecola).