Brown-breasted Flycatcher

Brown-breasted Flycatcher / Muscicapa muttui

Brown-breasted Flycatcher

Here the details of the Brown-breasted Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Muscicapa muttui
Protonym:  Butalis Muttui Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(2), 13 p.127
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  brbfly2
Type Locality:  Point Pedro, Ceylon.
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Publish Year:  1854
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DEFINITIONS

MUSCICAPA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Spotted Flycatcher M. striata) L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch; "Genus Muscicapæ ...  Le genre du Gobe-mouche  ...  MUSCICAPA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Curruca" or "Ficedula" of Gessner 1555, "Grisola" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Stoparola" of Willughby 1676, "Curruca subfusca" of Frisch 1733-1743, and "Sylvia pestilentialis" of Klein 1750; "Muscicapa Brisson, 1760, Ornith., 1, p. 32; 2, p. 357, pl. 5, fig. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Muscicapa = Motacilla striata Pallas." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 313). The Spotted Flycatcher is the archetypal flycatcher, perching stolidly, then darting out to seize passing insects before returning to its perch.
Var. MuscicopaMusicapa, Mussicapa, Muscapa.
Synon. Alseonax, Arizelomyia, Butalis, Hemichelidon, Myiotheras, Stoparola.

muscicapa
L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch.

muttui
Muttu (fl. 1850) Tamil servant, hunter, collector for Edgar Layard in Ceylon/Sri Lanka (Muscicapa).