Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant / Ochthoeca rufipectoralis

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant

Here the details of the Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ochthoeca rufipectoralis
Protonym:  F[luvicola] rufi-pectoralis Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.60
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rbctyr1
Type Locality:  Ayupaya [=Ayopayo, Cochabamba] , Bolivia.
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Publish Year:  1837
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DEFINITIONS

OCHTHOECA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ D'Orbigny's Chat Tyrant O. oenanthoides) Gr. οχθος okhthos  bank, mound; οικος oikos  dwelling  < οικεω oikeō to inhabit; "Gen. Ochthoeca n. gen.  (οχθη, Ufer; οικεω, bewohnen.)  Scheint die Gattung Fluvicola im westlichen Amerika zu ersetzen, stimmt mit derselben im Schnabelbau und der Fussbildung überein, unterscheidet sich aber durch verhältnissmässig längere Flügel, durch den nicht stufigen, sondern geraden etwas ausgerandeten Schwanz und abweichende Färbung des Gefieders 1).   1. O. oenanthoïdesFluvicola oenanthoïdes Orb. Voy. Amer. Ois. T. 38. F. 2.    2. O. SayaMuscicapa Saya Bonap.  Tyrannula pallida Sws.   ...   1) Hierher gehören mehrere von d'Orbigny beschriebene, uns unbekannte Arten des westlichen Südamerika." (Cabanis 1847); "Ochthoeaca Cabanis, 1847, Archiv f. Naturg., 13 (1), p. 255. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 48), Fluvicola oenanthoides d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 152).
Var. OchthoceaOchthoeacaOcthoeca, Ochthaeca.
Synon. Tumbezia.

rufipectoralis
L. rufus  rufous; pectoralis  pectoral  < pectus, pectoris  breast.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (poliogastra)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis poliogastra
poliogaster / poliogastra / poliogastris / poliogastrus
Gr. πολιος polios  grey; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (rubicundula)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis rubicundula
rubicundula / rubicundulus
L. rubicundulus  somewhat ruddy  < dim. rubicundus  red  < rubere  to be red  < ruber  red, ruddy.

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (obfuscata)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis obfuscata
obfuscata
L. obfuscatus or offuscatus  dark, obscure  < obfuscare or offuscare  to darken  < ob  because of; fuscare  to darken.

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (rufopectus)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis rufopectus
rufopectus
L. rufus  rufous; pectus, pectoris  breast.
● See: rufopicta

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (centralis)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis centralis
centralis
L. centralis, centrale  central, in the middle  < centrum  middle point, centre  < Gr. κεντρον kentron  sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses.  A good proportion of the names here refer to forms collected in "Central Africa," i.e. the eastern Congo and the Rift Valley lakes (e.g. subsp. Bradypterus baboecala, subsp. Chlorocichla flaviventris, subsp. Malimbus rubricollis, subsp. Sarothrura pulchra, subsp. Turdus pelios).  Some further examples follow.
• "Dieselbe steht in Bezug auf Grösse zwischen cardinalis und massaicus in der Mitte." (Neumann 1900) (subsp. Dendropicos fuscescens).  
• "Distribution. Endemic to Peru on east Andean slope from Río Huallaga through Pasco to Junín west of the Río Ene and north of the Río Mantaro  ...  The scientific name reflects the range of this species near the geographic center of Peru." (Hosner et al. in M. Isler et al. 2020) (Grallaria).
• "Intermediate in size between N. f. flavicollis (Vieill.) and N. f. melanoxantha (Lcht.)" (Hellmayr 1907) (subsp. Hemithraupis flavicollis).
• "These birds are intermediate between N. famosa and N. cupreonitens, and resemble birds labelled by Neumann in the Tring Museum with the MS. name Nectarinia famosa centralis" (van Someren 1916) (subsp. Nectarinia famosa).
• "RANGE. —Eastern part of the central Solomon Islands (Kulambangra, New Georgia, Vangunu, and Gatukai)." (Mayr 1932) (subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis).
• "zentralbrasilianischen Hochlandes (Matto-grosso.  S. Goyaz.  N.-São Paulo.  W.-Minas Geraës)" (Hellmayr 1920) (subsp. Ramphocelus carbo).
• "the Central American form is named CICCABA VIRGATA CENTRALIS, subsp. nov.  ...  Chivela, Oaxaca, Mexico." (Griscom 1929) (subsp. Strix virgata).
• "Tang- (Dang-) la Range, Central Tibet, Tang-la Pass" (Sushkin 1926) (subsp. Tetraogallus tibetanus).               

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (tectricialis)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis tectricialis
tectricialis
Mod. L. tectricialis  of the coverts  < tectrix, tetrices  coverts  < L. tegere  to cover.

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (rufipectoralis)
SCI Name: Ochthoeca rufipectoralis rufipectoralis
rufipectoralis
L. rufus  rufous; pectoralis  pectoral  < pectus, pectoris  breast.