Cinereous Tyrant

Cinereous Tyrant / Knipolegus striaticeps

Cinereous Tyrant

Here the details of the Cinereous Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Knipolegus striaticeps
Protonym:  M[uscisaxicola] striaticeps Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.66
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  cintyr1
Type Locality:  'La Paz'' [= Chiquitos, fide Hellmayr, 1925, Novit. Zool., p. 334] , Bolivia.
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Publish Year:  1837
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DEFINITIONS

KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos  insect; λεγω legō  to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors.  Muscicapa Lin. 2   ...   2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis). 
Var. Cnipolegus.   
Synon. AdaBlechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.

striaticeps
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; –ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.