Sipia Palliata Bird

Sipia Palliata Bird

Sipia Palliata Bird

English Name:  Magdalena Antbird
Latin Name:  Sipia palliata
Protonym:  Myrmeciza Ioemosticta palliata Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 30 p. 129
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Sipia
Taxonomy Code:  dumant3
Type Locality:  La Palmita, Santander, Colombia.
Author:  Todd
Publish Year:  1917
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

SIPIA
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Stub-tailed Antbird S. berlepschi) Sipi, Chocó, western Colombia; "SIPIA Hellmayr, genus nov....  Sipia HELLMAYR, genus nov.  Nearest to Cercomacra, but tail very much shorter (two-thirds as long as, instead of being equal to, or even longer than, the wing) and much less graduated (the outer most rectrix falling short of the penultimate one by only four millimetres); rectrices decidedly narrower; tarsus much longer and stronger.   Type: Pyriglena berlepschi HARTERT." (Hellmayr 1924).

palliata / palliatus
L. palliatus cloaked, mantled < pallium cloak, mantle.