Melanotis Hypoleucus Bird

English Name:  Blue-and-white Mockingbird
Latin Name:  Melanotis hypoleucus
Protonym:  Melanotis hypoleucus Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 4 p.460
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Melanotis
Taxonomy Code:  bawmoc1
Type Locality:  Guatemala.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELANOTIS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Blue Mockingbird M. caerulescens) Specific name Turdus melanotis Temminck, 1830 (< Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear); "573. Melanotis, Bp. (Mimus, p. Boie. - Orpheus, p. Sw. - Turdus, p. Gr.)   Mexico.  1.  TURDUS melanotis, Temm. nec Gould. (Orpheus caerulescens, Sw. - Melanotis caerulescens, Bp.) Pl. col. 498.  ex Mexico." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanotis Bonaparte, 1850, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, p. 276. Type, by monotypy, Turdus melanotis Temminck = Orpheus caerulescens Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 441).

melanotis
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear.

hypoleucus
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; λευκος leukos  white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos  whitish).

Hypoleucus
(Phalacrocoracidae; syn. Phalacrocorax † Pied Cormorant P. varius) Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; λευκος leukos  white (cf. specific name Carbo hypoleucos von Brandt, 1837 (= syn. Phalacrocorax fuscescens)); "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  b. *Hypoleucus Rchb.  varius (Pelic. — L. Gm.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 63. ic. 474.  Rel. spec. ib. 872—73. 875—876. t. 60. ic. 2309—10." (Reichenbach 1853); "Hypoleucus Reichenbach, 1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. VII.  Type, by original designation, Pelecanus varius J. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Hypoleucos.