Montane Forest Screech-Owl

Montane Forest Screech-Owl / Megascops hoyi

Montane Forest Screech-Owl

Here the details of the Montane Forest Screech-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Megascops hoyi
Protonym:  Otus hoyi Stutt.Beitr.Naturk. 428 p.4
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  mofsco1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1989
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DEFINITIONS

MEGASCOPS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Eastern Screech Owl M. asio) Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη  megalē  great; genus Scops Brünnich, 1772, owl. "5tes Subgenus. Megascops, Kp., Asiones, Schleg.  Schnabel vorgestreckt. Flügel kurz und stumpf. 1ste Schwinge so lang wie die 10te. 1ste bis 5te Schwinge an der Aussen- und Innenfahne deutlich ausgeschnitten. Fusswurzel befiedert. Zehen meist vollständig nackt.   8. Scops asio, Gr. Less." (Kaup 1851). The Eastern Screech Owl and its New World congeners were formerly placed in the genus Scops (= Otus).   
Synon. Athene, Gymnasio, Pseudociccaba.

hoyi / hoyianus
● Gunnar Arthur Höy (1901-1996) German/Swedish ornithologist born in Norway, emigrated to Argentina 1951, Curator of Natural History Mus., University of Salta (subsp. Geositta rufipennisMegascops, subsp. Spinus magellanicus).
● Dr Philo Roniayne Hoy (1816-1892) US ornithologist (syn. Grus americanus).
● Charles McCauley Hoy (1897-1923) US collector in Australia 1919, and China 1922-1923 (syn. Otocompsa sinensis).