Scarlet-breasted Dacnis

Scarlet-breasted Dacnis / Dacnis berlepschi

Scarlet-breasted Dacnis

Here the details of the Scarlet-breasted Dacnis named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dacnis berlepschi
Protonym:  Dacnis berlepschi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 11 p.37
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  scbdac1
Type Locality:  Lita, Northwestern Ecuador.
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Publish Year:  1900
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DEFINITIONS

DACNIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue Dacnis D. cayana) Gr. δακνις daknis  type of bird from Egypt, otherwise unidentified, mentioned by Hesychius and Pompeius Festus; "LES PIT-PITS. Buff. (DACNIS. Cuv.)  Représentent en petit les carouges [Icterus] par leur bec conique et aigu. Ils les lient avec les figuiers (1).   ...   (1) Motacilla Cayana, Gm. enl. 669." (Cuvier 1817); "Dacnis Cuvier, 1816, Règne Animal, 1 ("1817"), p. 395. Type, by virtual monotypy, Motacilla cayana Linnaeus." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 387).
Var. Dacuis, Dachnis.   
Synon. Cyanodacnis, Eudacnis, Hemidacnis, Mellisuga, Polidacnis, Pseudodacnis.

berlepschi
Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig Graf von Berlepsch (1850-1915) German ornithologist, collector specialising in the Neotropical avifauna (Aglaiocercus, Anthocephala, Asthenes, syn. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Ceratopipra erythrocephalaChaetocercus, subsp. Chamaeza campanisona, subsp. Chlorostilbon lucidus (ex Chlorostilbon splendidus egregius von Berlepsch & Ihering, 1885), subsp. Colius striatus, subsp. Conopias trivirgatus, CranioleucaCrypturellus, Dacnis, syn. Dendrocolaptes picumnus validus, syn. Eremophila teleschowi, syn. Eriocnemis vestita, subsp. Hafferia zeledoni, syn. Heliodoxa jacula henryi, syn. Henicorhina leucophrys, Hylopezus, syn. Hylopezus macularius paraensis, Leptasthenura, subsp. Lesbia victoriae, subsp. Merganetta leucogenis, subsp. Mitrephanes phaeocercus, syn. Myiornis auricularis, subsp. Myrmoborus lugubris, subsp. Myrmotherula menetriesii, subsp. Ochthoeca fumicolor, Parotia, Patagioenas, subsp. Phaeochroa cuvierii, syn. Phaethornis syrmatophorus, subsp. Phimosus infuscatus, subsp. Polioptila dumicola, subsp. Pseudotriccus pelzelni, subsp. Pyrrhura melanura, Rhegmatorhina, syn. Sicalis olivascens, Sipia, subsp. Sphenopsis melanotis, syn. Tangara episcopus prysjonesi, subsp. Tangara nigroviridis, subsp. Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus, subsp. Tolmomyias sulphurescens, syn. Turdus albicollis spodiolaemus, subsp. Veniliornis mixtus, subsp. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus).