Thrushes (Turdidae)

Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris) - HBW 10, p. 700

French: Grive à bec orange German: Goldschnabel-Musendrossel Spanish: Zorzalito Piquigualda
Other common names: Grey-headed Nightingale-thrush (griseiceps/phaeopleurus)

Taxonomy: Turdus aurantiirostris Hartlaub, 1850, Caracas, Venezuela.
Grey-headed races griseiceps and phaeopleurus sometimes considered to represent a separate species. Race sierrae sometimes merged into nominate. Described races aenopennis (from N Sinaloa and SW Chihuahua, in Mexico), bangsi (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) and russatus (mountains of SW Costa Rica and W Panama) synonymized with, respectively, clarus, melpomene and griseiceps. Eleven subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

clarus Jouy, 1894 - NW & NC Mexico.
melpomene (Cabanis, 1850) - C & S Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and NW Nicaragua.
costaricensis Hellmayr, 1902 - Costa Rica.

See all 11 subspecies

clarus Jouy, 1894 - NW & NC Mexico.
melpomene (Cabanis, 1850) - C & S Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and NW Nicaragua.
costaricensis Hellmayr, 1902 - Costa Rica.
griseiceps Salvin, 1866 - SW Costa Rica and W & C Panama.
phaeopleurus P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1876 - W Colombia.
sierrae Hellmayr, 1919 - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in N Colombia.
aurantiirostris (Hartlaub, 1850) - NE Colombia and W Venezuela.
barbaritoi Aveledo & Ginés, 1952 - Perijá Mts, in NW Venezuela.
birchalli Seebohm, 1881 - NE Venezuela and Trinidad.
inornatus J. T. Zimmer, 1944 - W slope of E Andes of Colombia (Santander).
insignis J. T. Zimmer, 1944 - E slope of Andes of Colombia.