Highland Tinamou

Highland Tinamou / Nothocercus bonapartei

Highland Tinamou

Here the details of the Highland Tinamou named bird below:

SCI Name:  Nothocercus bonapartei
Protonym:  Tinamus Bonapartei ListBirdsBrit.Mus. pt5 p.97
Taxonomy:  Tinamiformes / Tinamidae /
Taxonomy Code:  higtin1
Type Locality:  valley of Aragua, Venezuela.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1867
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

NOTHOCERCUS
(Tinamidae; Ϯ Tawny-breasted Tinamou N. julius) Gr. νοθος nothos  spurious; κερκος kerkos  tail; "Subfamilia 23. Tinaminæ.  Af. CRYPTUREÆ.   ...   98. Nothocercus, Bp.   330. bourcieri, Bp.   331. julius, Bp.   332. delattrii, Bp. (cinnamomeus? Less.)   333. sallæi, Bp.   334. noctivagus, Wied. (zabele, Spix.)   335. variegatus, Gm.   336. atricapillus, Tschudi" (Bonaparte 1856); "Nothocercus Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 881. Type, by subsequent designation, Tinamus julius Bonaparte (Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 27, 1895, p. 509.)" (Peters 1931, I, 14).
Var. Nothocernus.

bonapartei
Jules Laurent Lucien, later called Charles Lucien Jules Laurent 2nd Prince of Canino and of Musignano and Prince Bonaparte (1803-1857) French ornithologist (syn. Calidris fuscicollis, Coeligena, syn. Diglossa lafresnayii, syn. Emberiza leucocephalosGymnobucco, subsp. Loriculus philippensis, Nothocercus, syn. Pheucticus chrysopeplus, subsp. Turdus viscivorus) (see bonapartii).

SUBSPECIES

Highland Tinamou (South American)
SCI Name: Nothocercus bonapartei [bonapartei Group]
NOTHOCERCUS
(Tinamidae; Ϯ Tawny-breasted Tinamou N. julius) Gr. νοθος nothos  spurious; κερκος kerkos  tail; "Subfamilia 23. Tinaminæ.  Af. CRYPTUREÆ.   ...   98. Nothocercus, Bp.   330. bourcieri, Bp.   331. julius, Bp.   332. delattrii, Bp. (cinnamomeus? Less.)   333. sallæi, Bp.   334. noctivagus, Wied. (zabele, Spix.)   335. variegatus, Gm.   336. atricapillus, Tschudi" (Bonaparte 1856); "Nothocercus Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 881. Type, by subsequent designation, Tinamus julius Bonaparte (Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 27, 1895, p. 509.)" (Peters 1931, I, 14).
Var. Nothocernus.

Highland Tinamou (Costa Rican)
SCI Name: Nothocercus bonapartei frantzii
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).