Vireolanius Melitophrys Bird

English Name:  Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo
Latin Name:  Vireolanius melitophrys
Protonym:  Vireolanius melitophrys Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.330
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Vireonidae / Vireolanius
Taxonomy Code:  cssvir1
Type Locality:  Mexico; inferentially restricted to Jico, near Jalapa, Veracruz, by Nelson, 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 16, p. 156.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

VIREOLANIUS
(Vireonidae; Ϯ Chestnut-sided Shrike-vireo V. melitophrys) Compound of genera Vireo Vieillot, 1808, vireo, and Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; "Plumage loose-webbed, silky ...  Bill rather stout, hooked" (Van Tyne & Berger 1965); "*710. Vireolanius, Dubus. (Cycloris, p. Caban.)   Mexico.  1.   *V. melitophrys, Dubus. (Lanius chrysophrys, Licht.) Esq. Orn. 1850. t. 26. Mus. Brux. ex Berol.  ex Mexic." (Bonaparte 1850); "Vireolanius Bonaparte (ex Du Bus MS), 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 330. Type, by monotypy, Vireolanius melitophrys Bonaparte." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 108). 
Synon. Smaragdolanius.

melitophrys
Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos  honey (i.e. golden yellow); οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo (goldmani)
Latin Name: Vireolanius melitophrys goldmani
goldmani
Maj. Edward Alphonso Goldman (1873-1946) US Army, zoologist, divisional chief US Biological Survey 1919-1928, senior biologist US Fish & Wildlife Service 1928-1943, collector, conservationist (syn. Antrostomus ridgwayi, ‡subsp. Coturnicops noveboracensis, subsp. Crypturellus cinnamomeus, subsp. Geothlypis beldingi, subsp. Melospiza melodia, subsp. Momotus lessonii, subsp. Peucaea botterii, subsp. Setophaga auduboni, subsp. Trogon ambiguus, syn. Vireolanius melitophrys, Zentrygon).

Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo (melitophrys)
Latin Name: Vireolanius melitophrys melitophrys
melitophrys
Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos  honey (i.e. golden yellow); οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.