Black-fronted Tyrannulet

Black-fronted Tyrannulet / Phylloscartes nigrifrons

Black-fronted Tyrannulet

Here the details of the Black-fronted Tyrannulet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Phylloscartes nigrifrons
Protonym:  Leptopogon nigrifrons Ibis p.446
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blftyr1
Type Locality:  Roraima, 5,000 ft., ''British Guiana'' [= Venezuela] .
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Publish Year:  1884
IUCN Status:  

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.

nigrifrons
L. niger  black; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.
● ex “Black-fronted Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).