Sierran Elaenia

Sierran Elaenia / Elaenia pallatangae

Sierran Elaenia

Here the details of the Sierran Elaenia named bird below:

SCI Name:  Elaenia pallatangae
Protonym:  Elainea pallatangae Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1861) (1861), Pt3 p.407 pl.41
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  sieela3
Type Locality:  Pallatanga, Chimborazo, Ecuador.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos  of olive-oil, oleaginous  < ελαια elaia  olive; "Elænia n. g. 6)  Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd.  Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles.   ...    6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta.  Membrana narium plumulis tecta.  Vibrissæ tenues.  Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus.  Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis.  Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).  
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, ElanaElania.

pallatangae
Pallatanga, Chimborazo, Ecuador.

SUBSPECIES

Sierran Elaenia (pallatangae)
SCI Name: Elaenia pallatangae pallatangae
pallatangae
Pallatanga, Chimborazo, Ecuador.

Sierran Elaenia (intensa)
SCI Name: Elaenia pallatangae intensa
intensa
L. intensus violent, intense, stretched < intendere to strain (cf. Late L. intensus eager, strong, intense).

Sierran Elaenia (exsul)
SCI Name: Elaenia pallatangae exsul
exsul
L. exsul  exile  < ex  out of; solum  country, land (i.e. remote, isolated, insular).