Grayish Mourner

Here the details of the Grayish Mourner named bird below:

SCI Name:  Rhytipterna simplex
Protonym:  M[uscicapa] simplex Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.53
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Rhytipterna
Taxonomy Code:  gramou1
Type Locality:  Bahia, Brazil.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RHYTIPTERNA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Greyish Mourner R. simplex) Gr. ῥυτις rhutis, ῥυτιδος rhutidos  wrinkle; πτερνα pterna  heel; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXV, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, shows the corrugations on the upper hinder part of the tarsus later commented on by Sharpe 1888; "Rhytipterna Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Tyrannus calcaratus Swainson = Muscicapa simplex Lichtenstein." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 191).

simplex
L. simplex, simplicis  simple, plain.
● ex “Simple Tern” of Latham 1785 (Phaetusa ☼).

SUBSPECIES

Grayish Mourner (frederici)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna simplex frederici
frederici
Frederik Paul Penard, Jr. (1876-1909) Dutch naturalist resident in Suriname (subsp. Rhytipterna simplex).

Grayish Mourner (simplex)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna simplex simplex
simplex
L. simplex, simplicis  simple, plain.
● ex “Simple Tern” of Latham 1785 (Phaetusa ☼).