Plumbeous Forest-Falcon

Plumbeous Forest-Falcon / Micrastur plumbeus

Plumbeous Forest-Falcon

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

SCI Name:  Micrastur plumbeus
Protonym:  Micrastur plumbeus Bull.Br.Orn.Club 38 p.44
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae /
Taxonomy Code:  plffal1
Type Locality:  Rio Bogota, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1918
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.

plumbeum / plumbeus
L. plumbeus  plumbeous, lead-coloured  < plumbum  lead.
● ex “Brown-fronted Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (syn. Eupsittula pertinax).
● "95. TURDUS.  ...  plumbeus.  9. S. cærulescens, gula atra.  Turdus viscivorus plumbeus. Catesb. car. I. p. 30. t. 30.  Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (Turdus).