Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer / Chalybura urochrysia

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer

Here the details of the Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer named bird below:

SCI Name:  Chalybura urochrysia
Protonym:  Hypuroptila urochrysia Monogr.Trochil. pt22 pl.7,text
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  brtplu1
Type Locality:  Neighborhood of Panama, error = western Colombia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1861
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHALYBURA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ White-vented Plumeleteer C. buffonii) Gr. χαλυψ khalups, χαλυβος khalubos  steel; ουρα oura  tail; "* δ. Chalybura Buffonii (Orn. — LESS. 1832.) RCHB. — Bras. N.-Gran. Verag.   *—— viridis (Tr. — AUD. VIEILL. 1811.) RCHB. — Porto Rico.   —— cyanea (Tr. — ura VIEILL. 1820?) RCHB.   * —— Goudotii (Tr. — BOURC. 1844.) RCHB. — N.-Gran." (Reichenbach 1854); "Agyrtria δ Chalybura Reichenbach, Journ. f. Orn., 1, March, 1854, Beil zu Extrah., p. 10. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus buffonii Lesson. (Elliot, Classif. Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 45.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 78).
Synon. Chlorurisca, Cyanochloris, Hypuroptila, Methon.

chalybura
Gr. χαλυψ khalups, χαλυβος khalubos  steel; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura tail.

urochrysia
Gr. ουρα oura  tail; χρυσεος khruseos  golden  < χρυσος khrusos  gold.

SUBSPECIES

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (melanorrhoa)
SCI Name: Chalybura urochrysia melanorrhoa
melanorrhoa / melanorrhous
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ορρος orrhos  vent, rump.

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (isaurae)
SCI Name: Chalybura urochrysia isaurae
isaurae
Elisabeth Isaure Guéneau de Montbeillard Baronesse André de La Fresnaye (1802-1893) second wife of French ornithologist Noël Baron André de La Fresnaye (subsp. Chalybura urochrysia).

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (urochrysia)
SCI Name: Chalybura urochrysia urochrysia
urochrysia
Gr. ουρα oura  tail; χρυσεος khruseos  golden  < χρυσος khrusos  gold.