Dusky-faced Tanager

Dusky-faced Tanager / Mitrospingus cassinii

Dusky-faced Tanager

Here the details of the Dusky-faced Tanager named bird below:

SCI Name:  Mitrospingus cassinii
Protonym:  Tachyphonus Cassinii Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 7 p.297
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mitrospingidae /
Taxonomy Code:  duftan1
Type Locality:  Panama Railroad; type from Lion Hill, fide Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1080.
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Publish Year:  1861
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MITROSPINGUS
(Mitrospingidae; Ϯ Dusky-faced Tanager M. cassinii) Gr. μιτρα mitra  cap, head-dress; σπιγγος spingos  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "Genus Mitrospingus.  (Type, Tachyphonus cassini Lawrence.)  Related to Eucometis Sclater, but bill much longer (nearly as long as head), nostrils very different, wing more rounded, tarsus relatively longer, claws stronger, occipital feathers very short (instead of the reverse), and style of coloration very different." (Ridgway 1898).

cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, LeptotilaMitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).

SUBSPECIES

Dusky-faced Tanager (costaricensis)
SCI Name: Mitrospingus cassinii costaricensis
costaricanum / costaricensis
Costa Rica (Spanish costa rica rich coast, from its supposed gold resources).

Dusky-faced Tanager (cassinii)
SCI Name: Mitrospingus cassinii cassinii
cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, LeptotilaMitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).