The Key to Scientific Names
- accentor
● "Accentor - one who sings with another ... Like other members of the genus this bird is a fine songster" (Bangs 1902) (subsp. Catharus gracilirostris).
● Mod. English Accentor, coined by Fleming 1828 < French Accenteur < L. ad towards; cantor, cantoris singer < canere to sing; “A peculiar little bird, with a throat like an Alpine Accentor.” (Whitehead in Sharpe 1888) (Locustella).- Accentor
Mod. L. accentor chorister < L. ad towards, for; cantor, cantoris singer < canere to sing. “The genus Accentor was first proposed by Bechstein [1797] ...for the Dipper in the same year in which Cinclus was proposed by Borkhausen for the same bird. It is uncertain whether Borkhausen or Bechstein’s name was published first. Subsequently, in 1802 Bechstein ...used the same generic term Accentor, for the Alpine Accentor. The next available name for the Accentors is Prunella Vieillot ... and this is used by Hartert and other writers, and has undoubted priority under the international rules. As, however, the transfer of the well-known name Accentor to the Dippers would be a cause of confusion, the Committee have retained Accentor for the Hedge-Sparrows as a “nomen conservandum” ” (BOU 1915).
● (Muscicapidae; syn. Calliope † Siberian Rubythroat C. calliope) “Accentor Bechst. Mot. calliope Pall. u. a. m.” (Boie 1826); “Accentor “Bechst.” Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 972 (not of Bechstein, 1797, nor of Bechstein, 1802). Type, by monotypy, Motacilla calliope Pallas, 1776.” (JAJ 2023).
● (Cinclidae; syn. Cinclus † White-throated Dipper C. cinclus) "Der Wassersänger. (Wasserstaar, Wasseramsel, Bach- oder Seeamsel.) Accentor aquaticus. Mihi. Sturnus Cinclus. Gmelin Lin. Syst. I. 2. p. 803. n. 5. Merle d'eau. Buffon hist. nat. des ois. VIII - p. 134. tab. II. Water-Ouzel. Latham" (Bechstein 1797); "Accentor Bechstein, Getreue Abbild. Naturhist. Gegenstände, 2, Heft 3, 1797, p. 47, pl. 30, (later than September), 1797—type, by monotypy, Accentor. aquaticus Bechstein = Sturnus cinclus Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 106).
● (Prunellidae; syn. Prunella † Alpine Accentor P. collaris) "Der Alpensänger oder die Flüelerche. *) ...*) Accentor alpinus. Motacilla alpina. Lin. Fauvette des Alpes, Buff. Alpine Warbler. Lath." (Bechstein 1802); "Accentor Bechstein, 1802, Ornith. Taschenbuch Deutschland, I, 191 (not of Bechstein, 1797). Type, by monotypy, Motacilla alpina Lin., i.e. Gmelin, 1789 = Sturnus collaris Scopoli, 1769." (JAJ 2022).
