Palau Flycatcher
Palau Flycatcher
Here the details of the Palau Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myiagra erythrops Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.6
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code: palfly3
Type Locality: Pelew (= Palau) Islands.
Author: Hartlaub & Finsch
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYIAGRA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Leaden Flycatcher M. rubecula) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; αγρευω agreuō to catch (cf. μυιαγρος muiagros fly-catcher; myth. Myiagros, the Fly-catcher, an Elean god invoked against flies); "Genus. MYIÄGRA*. Rostrum rectum, subbreve, depressum, basi latum, multo latius quam altum; mandibula superiore emarginata; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, setis plumulisque fere obtectis; rictu vibrissis fortibus hirsuto. Alæ mediocres subrotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda duplo fere longiore, tertia quarta et quinta fere æqualibus longissimis. Cauda mediocris, lata, æqualis aut interdum subfurcata. Pedes graciles, mediocres; acrotarsiis scutellatis, scutorum suturis vix decernendis. ... 1. RUBECULOIDES. ... 2. PLUMBEA. ... 3. MACROPTERA. ... Mr. Caley informs us that the boys of the colony used to call it Winter, the reason of which he does not give. ... *Mυια musca, and αγρευω venor." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 250. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Grau, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 32), Myiagra rubeculoides Vigors and Horsfield = Todus rubecula Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 516).
Synon. Lophomyiagra, Mastersornis, Piezorhynchus, Platygnathus, Seisura, Submyiagra.
erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos eye, face, countenance.
Erythrops
(Sylviidae; syn. Chrysomma † Yellow-eyed Babbler C. sinense hypoleucum) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos eye; "2. PYCTORHIS. Erythrops, Hodgs. MSS. Pyctoris, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24. Chrysomma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845) . . . Type. P. sinensis" (Sharpe 1883); "Erythrops "Hodgs. MSS." = Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 510. In synonymy with Pyctoris Hodgson, i.e. Blyth. Not Erythrops Rafinesque, 1820, Pisces, nor Erythrops Sars, 1869, Crustacea." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 327).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)