Yellow-green Tyrannulet

Yellow-green Tyrannulet / Phylloscartes flavovirens

Yellow-green Tyrannulet

Here the details of the Yellow-green Tyrannulet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Phylloscartes flavovirens
Protonym:  Leptopogon flavovirens Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 7 p.472
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yegtyr1
Type Locality:  along line of Panama Railroad.
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Publish Year:  1862
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DEFINITIONS

PHYLLOSCARTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet P. ventralis) Gr. φυλλον phullon  leaf; σκαιρω skairō  to skip, to dance; "Gen. PHYLLOSCARTES **) nov. gen. — Laub-Tachuri.   183. 1. P. ventralis Nob.   Muscicapa ventralis "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 275. 2. — Tyrannulus ventralis Id. Tabl. méth. p. 27. — Elania ventralis Gray Gen. B. I. p. 250. 15. — Leptopogon ventralis Bp. Consp. I. p. 186. — Euscarthmus ventralis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 491.   ...   **) Von φυλλον (Laub) und σκαρτης (Springer).  Diese Gattung erinnert im Gefieder schon ganz an Leptopogon, hat aber einen breitern Schnabel mit weniger abgerundeter Firste und zeigt auch noch die für die Todinae characteristischen hohen Läufe." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Phylloscartes Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Mus. Heineanum, 2, p. 52. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa ventralis Temminck." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 63).
Synon. Guracava, Leptotriccus, Phyllooecia.

flavovirens
Mod. L. flavovirens, flavovirentis  yellowish-green  < L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.