Bay-ringed Tyrannulet

Bay-ringed Tyrannulet / Phylloscartes sylviolus

Bay-ringed Tyrannulet

Here the details of the Bay-ringed Tyrannulet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Phylloscartes sylviolus
Protonym:  L[eptotriccus] sylviolus Mus.Hein. 2 p.54
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bartyr1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to Rio de Janeiro by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 246.
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Publish Year:  1860
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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.

sylviolus
Mod. L. sylviolus  little warbler, woodland sprite  < dim. sylvia  warbler < L. silva  wood; ex “Muscicapa sylviolus” of Lichtenstein MS (Leptotriccus).