Lined Forest-Falcon

Lined Forest-Falcon / Micrastur gilvicollis

Lined Forest-Falcon

Here the details of the Lined Forest-Falcon named bird below:

SCI Name:  Micrastur gilvicollis
Protonym:  Sparvius gilvicollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 10 p.323
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae /
Taxonomy Code:  liffal1
Type Locality:  no locality. Type from Cayenne.
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Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros  little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841).  Brachypterusc, Less. (1837).  Astur, Spix.   M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141.  F. concentricus, Ill.   ...   cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.

gilvicollis
L. gilvus pale yellow; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.