Asthenes Coryi Bird

English Name:  Ochre-browed Thistletail
Latin Name:  Asthenes coryi
Protonym:  Synallaxis coryi Auk 5 p.458
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Asthenes
Taxonomy Code:  ocbthi1
Type Locality:  Andes of Merida, Venezuela.
Author:  von Berlepsch
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ASTHENES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Sharp-billed Canastero A. pyrrholeuca sordida) Gr. ασθενης asthenēs  insignificant (an epithet of the bird βουδυτης boudutēs, now associated with the Yellow Wagtail, but formerly variously identified)  < negative prefix α- a- ; σθενος sthenos  power; "LXXXVII. Asthenes RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel vollkommen gerade und spitz, Schwanzfedern gesteigert, verschmälert und abgerundet. Kleid einfarbig ungefleckt. — Den Drosselrohrsänger, Junco arundinaceus, hier deutlich repräsentirend.    374. A. sordida (Synall. — LESS. Rev. 1839. 105.) RCHB. t. DXX. 3606.   ...   375. A. brunnea (Synall. — GOULD Beagle 78.6.) RCHB.   ...   376. A. striaticollis (Anumbius — D'ORBG. LAFR. syn. Voy. p. 255.) RCHB.   ...   377. A. rubra (Anumbius ruber D'ORBG. LAFR.) RCHB.   ...   378. A. aradoides (Anabates — LAFR. Mag. Zool. 1832. t. 8.) RCHB. t. DXXVII. 2642." (Reichenbach 1853); "Asthenes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 168. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis sordida Lesson (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 103).
Var. Astheres.
Synon. Eusiptornoides, Oreophylax, Pseudosiptornis, Schizoeaca, Siptornoides.

coryi
Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (Asthenes, subsp. Chordeiles nacunda, syn. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Geothlypis rostrata, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, subsp. Phaenicophilus poliocephalus, subsp. Rallus crepitans, syn. Sula sula, syn. Tiaris olivacea, subsp. Turdus rubripes).