Micrastur Buckleyi Bird

Buckley\'s Forest-Falcon / Micrastur buckleyi

Micrastur Buckleyi Bird

English Name:  Buckley's Forest-Falcon
Latin Name:  Micrastur buckleyi
Protonym:  Micrastur melanoleucus buckleyi Syn.ListAccipitres p.15
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code:  buffal1
Type Locality:  Sarayacu, Ecuador.
Author:  Swann
Publish Year:  1919
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

buckleyi
● Thomas Edward Buckley (1846-1902) English traveller in Lapland, Sweden, Turkey, Greece and North America, ornithologist, collector, big-game hunter in tropical Africa 1872-1873, 1876, 1888 (subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Peliperdix).
● Clarence Buckley (b. 1832) British collector in Bolivia and Ecuador 1868-1880 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (?syn. Chrysuronia oenone alleni, syn. Coeligena iris, syn. Colibri coruscansColumbina, Laniisoma, Micrastur, subsp. Odontophorus gujanensis, subsp. Tityra inquisitor).