Flame-crowned Manakin

Flame-crowned Manakin / Heterocercus linteatus

Flame-crowned Manakin

Here the details of the Flame-crowned Manakin named bird below:

SCI Name:  Heterocercus linteatus
Protonym:  Elaenia linteata Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] p.121 pl.63
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pipridae /
Taxonomy Code:  flcman2
Type Locality:  upper branches of Amazon; restricted to Borba, Rio Madeira (right bank), Amazonas, Brazil, by Gyldenstolpe, 1951, Arkiv Zool., ser. 2, 2, p. 245.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

HETEROCERCUS
(Pipridae; Ϯ Flame-crested Manakin H. linteatus) Gr. ἑτερος heteros   different; κερκος kerkos  tail; "both sexes possess the graduated tail with the outermost rectrices shortest and narrowest (being about half the length and width of the central tail feathers). Furthermore, the feather rachises of the rectrices are curiously unstiffened" (Kirwan & Green 2011); "Genus HETEROCERCUS.   1494. HETEROCERCUS LINTEATUS.  Elænia linteata, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 121. pl. 63. Heterocercus linteatus, Hartl. in Mus. Brem." (P. Sclater 1862); "Heterocercus Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 245. Type, by monotypy, Elaenia linteata Strickland." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 257).

heterocercus
Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail.

linteata / linteatus
L. linteatus  clothed in linen  <  linteum  linen cloth  < linum  thread  < Gr. λινον linon  flax, thread.