Contopus Fumigatus Bird

Contopus Fumigatus Bird

Contopus Fumigatus Bird

English Name:  Smoke-colored Pewee
Latin Name:  Contopus fumigatus
Protonym:  T[yrannus] fumigatus Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.43
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Contopus
Taxonomy Code:  smcpew1
Type Locality:  Yungas in Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CONTOPUS
(Tyrannidae; Eastern Wood Pewee C. virens) Gr. κοντος kontos  pole, shaft; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "70. Contopus virens Cab.  Muscicapa virens Lin. Gm. — Muscicapa rapax Wils. — Tyrannula virens Jard. — Myiarchus virens Cab. — Bombito. "Ist sehr selten auf Cuba" Gundl.    [Diese Art bildet den Typus der Gattung Contopus.  Dieselbe schliesst sich näher als die folgenden Gruppen [Myiarchus] an die Tyrannen an, durch lange spitze Flügel.  Der Schwanz ist ausgerandet und die kurzen Läufe geben ein characteristisches Kennzeichen ab.   Hierher gehören ferner:  C. Cooperi. — Muscicapa Cooperi Nutt.    C. cinereus —  Platyrhynchus cinereus Spix.    C. ardesiacus. — Tyrannula ardosiaca Lafr." (Cabanis 1855); "Contopus (not Contipus MARSEUL, 1853) CABANIS, Journ. Orn., 3, p. 479, 1855— type by orig. desig. Muscicapa virens LINNAEUS." (Hellmayr, 1927, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. V, 190); "Contopus Cabanis, 1855, Journ. f. Ornith., 3, p. 479.  Type, by original designation, Muscicapa virens Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 127).
Var. Contopes, Conchopus.
Synon. Blacicus, Capnixus, Horizopus, Myiochanes, Nuttallornis, Planchesia, Syrichta, Syrichtha.

fumigata / fumigatus
L. fumigatus  smoked  < fumigavi  to smoke  < fumus, fumi  smoke.
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807 (syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa).

SUBSPECIES

Smoke-colored Pewee (ardosiacus)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus ardosiacus
ardoisiaceus / ardosiaca / ardosiacea / ardosiaceus / ardosiacus
Mod. L. ardosiaceus slate-coloured < French ardoisé slate-grey.

Smoke-colored Pewee (cineraceus)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus cineraceus
cineracea / cineraceum / cineraceus
L. cineraceus  ash-grey  < cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Cotinga cendré” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Lipaugus vociferans).
● ex “Cinereous Godwit” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Tringa nebularia).

Smoke-colored Pewee (duidae)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus duidae
duidae
Cerro Duida, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Smoke-colored Pewee (zarumae)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus zarumae
zarumae
Zaruma, El Oro, south-western Ecuador.

Smoke-colored Pewee (fumigatus)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus fumigatus
fumigata / fumigatus
L. fumigatus  smoked  < fumigavi  to smoke  < fumus, fumi  smoke.
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807 (syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa).

Smoke-colored Pewee (brachyrhynchus)
Latin Name: Contopus fumigatus brachyrhynchus
brachyrhynchus / brachyrrhynchus
Gr. βραχυς brakhus  short; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.