Scaled Metaltail

Here the details of the Scaled Metaltail named bird below:

SCI Name:  Metallura aeneocauda
Protonym:  Trochilus (--?) aeneocauda Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt14 no.164 p.87
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Metallura
Taxonomy Code:  scamet1
Type Locality:  Bolivia.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

METALLURA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Black Metaltail M. phoebe) Gr. μεταλλον metallon  metal; ουρα oura  tail; "METALLURA, gen. nov.   Char. gen.— Rostrum rectum, sublongum.  Plumæ molles sericeæ.  Cauda subgrandis, rotundata.  Gula et rectrices infra tanquam metallum expolitum luminosæ.  Alæ subgrandes.  Tarsi nudi.  Pedes subgrandes.  Digitus et unguis postici digitum et unguem medios longitudine æquantes vel superantes.   ...    The species are— Trochilus cupreocauda, Gould.  Trochilus æneocauda, Gould.  Trochilus Alardi, Bourc.  Trochilus smaragdinicollis, D'Orb.  Trochilus Williami, Bourc." (Gould 1847); "Metallura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 15, 1847, p. 94. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cupreicauda Gould = Ornismya phoebe Lesson and DeLattre. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 118).
Var. Meltalura.
Synon. Laticauda, Lavinia, Urolampra.

aeneocauda
L. aeneus  of a bronze colour  < aes, aeris  bronze; cauda  tail.

SUBSPECIES

Scaled Metaltail (aeneocauda)
SCI Name: Metallura aeneocauda aeneocauda
aeneocauda
L. aeneus  of a bronze colour  < aes, aeris  bronze; cauda  tail.

Scaled Metaltail (malagae)
SCI Name: Metallura aeneocauda malagae
malagae
Spanish conquistadores carried the name of Málaga, the Malaka of the Phoenicians and Malaqua of the Moors of al-Andalus, to the Americas.
● "Metallura malagae sp. n.  ...  Habitat circum Malaga Boliviae orientalis." (von Berlepsch 1897); "MALAGÁ    Not located    High plateau locality, probably in La Paz area; Garlepp (Niethammer, 1956:96)." (R. A. Paynter, Jr. et al. 1975); Río Malagá, a feeder of the Río Paracti, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Laurent Raty in litt.) (Metallura).