Thraupis Sayaca Bird

English Name:  Sayaca Tanager
Latin Name:  Thraupis sayaca
Protonym:  Tanagra Sayaca Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.316
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Thraupis
Taxonomy Code:  saytan1
Type Locality:  Brazil ; Pernambuco suggested by Naumburg, 1924, Auk, 41, p. 111.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis  unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae.  Tanagra Lin.   ...   Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman.   ...   Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318).   Var. Thrapis.

sayaca
Tupí name Saí-acú  very lively (bird), for various tanagers (cf. Cayenne Creole name Saouakou for the Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius (Brisson 1760)).
● ex “Sayacu” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and “Tangara brasiliensis varia” of Brisson 1760 (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Sayaca Tanager (boliviana)
Latin Name: Thraupis sayaca boliviana
boliviae / boliviana / bolivianum / bolivianus / boliviensis
Bolivia (named after Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) "The Liberator", Venezuelan revolutionary, who helped to expel the Spaniards from their South American empire).

Sayaca Tanager (obscura)
Latin Name: Thraupis sayaca obscura
obscura
L. obscurus  dark, dusky, covered, obscure.
● ex “Dusky Duck” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (syn. Anas rubripes).
● ex “Brown Tern” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Chlidonias niger).
● ex “Yacúhú” of de Azara 1802-1805, No. 335: “Yacús  ...  Asi llaman los Güaranís á tres páxaros  ...  á otro llamado Mitú” (Penelope).
● ex “Dusky Petrel” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Pterodroma alba; unident.).

Sayaca Tanager (sayaca)
Latin Name: Thraupis sayaca sayaca
sayaca
Tupí name Saí-acú  very lively (bird), for various tanagers (cf. Cayenne Creole name Saouakou for the Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius (Brisson 1760)).
● ex “Sayacu” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and “Tangara brasiliensis varia” of Brisson 1760 (Tangara).