Euphonia Elegantissima Bird

English Name:  Elegant Euphonia
Latin Name:  Euphonia elegantissima
Protonym:  Pipra elegantissima Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1837) (1837), Pt5 no.59 p.112
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Euphonia
Taxonomy Code:  eleeup1
Type Locality:  Mexico.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EUPHONIA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ White-vented Euphonia E. minuta) Gr. ευφωνια euphōnia  goodness of voice, excellence of tone, euphony  < ευφωνεω euphōneō  to have a good voice  < ευ eu  good; φωνη phōnē  voice; "Some [Tanagrinae] possess considerable vocal powers; and the notes of the subgenus Euphonia, as its name implies, are said to be particularly musical" (Swainson 1837); "LA seconde, ou celle des Tangaras Euphones, renferme les espèces dont la bec est court et assez semblable à celui des Manakins, dont les doigts sont divisés comme ceux des Tangaras, et dont les pates sont aussi longues que la queue.  Exemples: l'Organiste (T. musica), le Téité (T. violacea), le Tangara chlorotique (T. chlorotica), et le Nègre (T. cayennensis): ces oiseaux doivent former un genre particulier.  ...  EUPHONE ORGANISTE  Pipra musica. GMEL.  ...  Sa voix est très étendue et très variée; et ce qui est fort remarquable, c'est qu'elle est susceptible de prendre successivement tous les tons de l'octave en montant du grave à l'aigu. Cette particularité a fait donner à cet oiseau le nom qu'il porte, et même, dans quelques cantons de Saint-Domingue, celui de Musicien.  ...  27. [EUPHONE] olive. . . . .(Euphonia olivacea. NOB.)" (Desmarest 1806); "Euphonia Desmarest, 1806, Hist. Nat. Tangaras, livr. 10, table [pl. 27]. Type, by monotypy, Euphonia olivacea Desmarest = Euphonia minuta Cabanis.²  ...  ² The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has suppressed the name olivacea Desmarest, 1806 (published as the binomen Euphonia olivacea) for the purposes of the Law of Priority, but not for those of the Law of Homonymy, and has placed the name minuta Cabanis, 1849 (published as the binomen Euphonia minuta) on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 340).
Var. Euphona (Gr. ευφωνος euphōnos  musical, sweet voiced). 
Synon. Acroleptes, Cyanophonia, Euphone, Hypophaea, Iliolopha, Phonasca, Pyrrhuphonia, Tanagra.

euphonia
Gr. ευφωνια euphōnia  goodness of voice, excellence of tone  < ευφωνεω euphōneō  to have a good voice  < ευ eu  good; φωνη phōnē  voice.

elegantissima / elegantissimus
L. elegantissima  very fine  < super. elegans, elegantis  fine  < elegere probably an early form of eligere  to select.

SUBSPECIES

Elegant Euphonia (rileyi)
Latin Name: Euphonia elegantissima rileyi
rileyi
Joseph Harvey Riley (1873-1941) US ornithologist at US National Mus. 1896-1941, collector in Cuba 1900, and the Bahamas 1903 (syn. Coccyzus minor, subsp. Coracina temminckii, subsp. Euphonia elegantissima, syn. Myophonus caeruleus temminckii, syn. Oriolus chinensis celebensis, subsp. Pipilo erythrophthalmus, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps, syn. Strix leptogrammica maingayi).

Elegant Euphonia (elegantissima)
Latin Name: Euphonia elegantissima elegantissima
elegantissima / elegantissimus
L. elegantissima  very fine  < super. elegans, elegantis  fine  < elegere probably an early form of eligere  to select.

Elegant Euphonia (vincens)
Latin Name: Euphonia elegantissima vincens
vincens
L. vincens, vincentis  surpassing  < vincere  to overcome.
● “as Mr Legge had proposed no name, Mr Sclater suggested the specific name vincens, after one of the names of its discoverer” (P. Sclater 1872); Lt.-Col. William Vincent Legge (1841-1918) Australian Army, naturalist in Ceylon 1868-1883 (Dicaeum).