Rusty-backed Spinetail

Rusty-backed Spinetail / Cranioleuca vulpina

Rusty-backed Spinetail

Here the details of the Rusty-backed Spinetail named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cranioleuca vulpina
Protonym:  Synallaxis vulpina Sitz.K.Akad.Wiss.Wien 20 p.162
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rubspi4
Type Locality:  Brazil = Rio Claro and Guardamor [Goiaz], Engenho do Gama, Villa Maria, Matto Grosso [Mato Grosso] and Rio Madeira [Amazonas]; Engenho do Gama, Rio Guapore, Mato Grosso, designated by Hellmayr, antea, p. 124, note c, ex op. cit., 34, 1859, p. 122.
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Publish Year:  1856
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DEFINITIONS

CRANIOLEUCA
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Light-crowned Spinetail C. albiceps) Gr. κρανιον kranion  skull, head  < καρα kara, καρατος karatos  head; λευκος leukos  white; "LXXXVCranioleuca RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vög t. sppl. — Von der nahe stehenden Melanopareia verschieden durch einen stark gesteigerten Schwanz, noch kürzer als die Flügel, dessen einzelne Federn an der Spitze gerundet sind. Vierte Schwinge am längsten. Schnabel ziemlich gestreckt, Firste sanft gebogen, kiellos. Lauf ziemlich kurz, Nägel stark gekrümmt. — Das eigenthümliche Kleid des etwas größeren Vogels wird unten beschrieben.     372. C. albiceps (Synall. — D'ORBG. voy. 244. pl. 16. 2.) RCHB. t. DXXII. 3616. — Graulich olivengrün, Oberkopf gelblichweiß" (Reichenbach 1853); "Cranioleuca Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 167. Type, by monotypy [and by virtual tautonymy], Synallaxis albiceps d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 97).
Var. Craniolenca.
Synon. Acrorchilus.

vulpina
L. vulpinus  fox-like  < vulpes, vulpis  fox (i.e. fox-coloured, russet, tawny).

SUBSPECIES

Rusty-backed Spinetail (apurensis)
SCI Name: Cranioleuca vulpina apurensis
apurensis
Río Apuré, Apuré State, Venezuela.

Rusty-backed Spinetail (vulpina)
SCI Name: Cranioleuca vulpina vulpina
vulpina
L. vulpinus  fox-like  < vulpes, vulpis  fox (i.e. fox-coloured, russet, tawny).

Rusty-backed Spinetail (foxi)
SCI Name: Cranioleuca vulpina foxi
foxi / foxii
● T. V. Fox (1879-1918) in Uganda 1909-1918 (syn. Acrocephalus rufescens ansorgei).
● William J. Fox (fl. 1940) US librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (subsp. Cranioleuca vulpina).
● Dr John Lawrence Fox (1811-1864) US Navy, Assistant Surgeon 1837-1847 (on US Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), Surgeon 1847-1864, Fleet Surgeon 1864 (syn. Limosa lapponica baueri).

Rusty-backed Spinetail (reiseri)
SCI Name: Cranioleuca vulpina reiseri
reiseri
Dr C. H. Othmar Reiser (1861-1936) Austrian ornithologist, Curator of Natural History Mus., Sarajevo 1887-1920, collector in Brazil 1903 (syn. Alectoris graeca, syn. Cettia cetti sericea, subsp. Cranioleuca vulpina, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, subsp. Iduna pallida, syn. Oenanthe hispanica, Phyllomyias, syn. Prunella collaris subalpina, subsp. Sittasomus griseicapillus, syn. Turdus viscivorus deichleri).