Campylorhamphus Trochilirostris Bird

English Name:  Red-billed Scythebill
Latin Name:  Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
Protonym:  Dendrocolaptes trochilirostris Abh.Konigl.Akad.Wiss.Berlin p.207 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Campylorhamphus
Taxonomy Code:  rebscy1
Type Locality:  Brazil; type from Baia, fide Hellmayr.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1820
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPYLORHAMPHUS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Black-billed Scythebill C. falcularius) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "Campylorhamphus longirostris W. Bertoni (gen. nov.) (Etimol.: del gr. kampylos, encorvado, y rhamphos, pico, y del lat. longirostris, pico largo, porque es el pájaro de pico más largo y arqueado que conosco en el Paraguay, sin exceptuar los Colibrís paraguayos." (Bertoni 1901); "Campylorhamphus Bertoni, An. Cient. Paraguayos, Ser. 1, no. 1, 1901, p. 70. Type, by monotypy, Campylorhamphus longirostris Bertoni = Dendrocopus falcularius Vieillot." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 54).
Var. Campyloramphus.
Synon. Xiphornis.

trochilirostris
L. trochilus  semicircle; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Red-billed Scythebill (brevipennis)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris brevipennis
brevipennis
Mod. L. brevipennis  short-winged  < L. brevis  short; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

Red-billed Scythebill (venezuelensis)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris venezuelensis
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).

Red-billed Scythebill (thoracicus)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris thoracicus
thoracica / thoracicus
Med. L. thoracicus  pectoral, of the chest  < Gr. θωρακικος thōrakikos  suffering in the chest  < θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breastplate.
● ex “Plastron Noir” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 123 (Apalis).
● ex “Alconcillo aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 39 (syn. Falco femoralis).

Red-billed Scythebill (zarumillanus)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris zarumillanus
zarumillanus
Zarumilla, Tumbes, Peru.

Red-billed Scythebill (napensis)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris napensis
napensis
Napo Province, eastern Ecuador.
● Río Napo, eastern Ecuador (subsp. Psophia crepitans).
● Junction of Curaray and Napo Rivers, Ecuador (= Peru) (Stigmatura).

Red-billed Scythebill (notabilis)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris notabilis
notabilis
L. notabilis  remarkable  < notare  to mark  < nota  mark.

Red-billed Scythebill (snethlageae)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris snethlageae
snethlageae
Dr Henriette Mathilde Maria Elisabeth Emilie Snethlage (1868-1929) German ornithologist, pioneer field worker, collector in Amazonia 1905-1929, Director of Goeldi Mus. 1914-1922 (subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, Conopophaga, subsp. Hemitriccus minor, Pyrrhura).

Red-billed Scythebill (devius)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris devius
devius
L. devius  living in out of the way places, solitary  < de  away from; via  road.

Red-billed Scythebill (lafresnayanus)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris lafresnayanus
lafresnayana / lafresnayanus / lafresnayei / lafresnayi / lafresnayii
Noël Frédéric Armand Baron André de La Fresnaye (1783-1861) French ornithologist, collector (Aegithina, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, syn. Catamenia analis analoides, syn. Centropus toulou, subsp. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, subsp. Dendropicos fuscescens, Diglossa, ‡Gallirallus, syn. Knipolegus nigerrimus, Lafresnaya, subsp. Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger, Merops, syn. Myrmotherula axillaris, Picumnus, syn. Sporophila collaris melanocephala, syn. Strophocincla cachinnans, syn. Xenopirostris xenopirostris).

Red-billed Scythebill (hellmayri)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris hellmayri
hellmayri
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878-1944) Austrian/US ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, subsp. Anthoscopus caroli, Anthus, subsp. Attila rufus, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, subsp. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Celeus elegans, syn. Chloroceryle americana cabanisii, Cinnyris, syn. Conopophaga lineata, Cranioleuca, syn. Crypturellus strigulosus, subsp. Cyanerpes caeruleus, subsp. Dendrocincla tyrannina, Drymophila, subsp. Empidonax occidentalis, subsp. Geositta cunicularia, syn. Geositta rufipennis fasciata, subsp. Hemithraupis flavicollis, subsp. Isleria hauxwelli, subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris, subsp. Leptopogon superciliaris, subsp. Leptotila rufaxilla, Mecocerculus, subsp. Myioborus miniatus, subsp. Myiozetetes cayanensis, syn. Nonnula rubecula, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris, syn. Petronia petronia, subsp. Piaya cayana, syn. Pitangus sulphuratus, subsp. Poecile palustris, subsp. Pyriglena leuconota, subsp. Rhynchocyclus brevirostris, subsp. Saltator aurantiirostris, syn. Selenidera gouldii, subsp. Sporophila caerulescens, Synallaxis, subsp. Tanygnathus megalorhynchos, subsp. Terenotriccus erythrurus, syn. Thamnophilus schistaceus dubius, subsp. Tyto alba, subsp. Xenops tenuirostris).

Red-billed Scythebill (major)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris major
major
L. maior, maioris  greater, larger  < comp. magnus  great, large, powerful.
● ex “Poule d’eau de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 352; “Even if [Statius Müller, 1776] ...should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton’s plate” (Sharpe 1894) (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Grand Corbeau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 51 (unident.;?Corvus sp.).
● ex “Crotophagus major” of Brisson 1760, “Grand bout de Petun” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 102, fig. 1, “Ani des palétuviers” of Salerne 1767, and “Greater Ani” of Latham 1781 (Crotophaga).
● 54. PICUS.  ...  major.  10. P. albo nigroque varius, ano occipiteque rubro.  Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus lateralibus utrinque albescentibus. Fn. svec. 81.  Picus varius major. Ges. av. 708. Aldr. ornith. l. 12. c. 32. Will. orn. 94. t. 21. Raj. av. 43. Alb. av. I. p. 19. t. 19. Frisch. av. . . t. 36. f. 1.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dendrocopos).
● ex “Grande Egrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925 (syn. Egretta garzetta).
● ex “Scolopax media” of Frisch 1733-1763, “Great Snipe” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinago media).
● ex “Grand Indicateur, mâle” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 241, fig. 1 (syn. Indicator indicator).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● ex “An other sort of Loggerhead” of Sloane 1707-1725, “Sitta” or “Picus cinereus major, rostro curvo” of Ray 1713, “Grand Sittelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Great Nuthatch” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Myiarchus validus).
● ex “Parus major” of Gessner 1555, Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Fringillago”, “Great Titmouse” or “Ox Eye” of Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, nucha luteis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Parus).
● ex “Grèbe de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 404, fig. 1, and “Grand Grèbe” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Podiceps).
● ex “Barbican des côtes de Barbarie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 602 (syn. Pogonornis dubius).
● ex “Grande Quiscale” of Vieillot 1819 (Quiscalus).
● ex “Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 205 (syn. Saltator maximus).
● ex “Batara mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 211 (Taraba).
● ex “Macucagua” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Perdix brasiliensis” of Brisson 1760, and “Magoua” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Tinamus).
● ex “Trepadore grande” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 241 (Xiphocolaptes).

Red-billed Scythebill (trochilirostris)
Latin Name: Campylorhamphus trochilirostris trochilirostris
trochilirostris
L. trochilus  semicircle; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.