Myiophobus Inornatus Bird

Myiophobus Inornatus Bird

Myiophobus Inornatus Bird

English Name:  Unadorned Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Myiophobus inornatus
Protonym:  Myiophobus inornatus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 83(1931) p.461
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiophobus
Taxonomy Code:  unafly1
Type Locality:  Santo Domingo (Inca Mine), 6,000 ft., Puno, Peru.
Author:  Carriker
Publish Year:  1932
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIOPHOBUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Bran-coloured Flycatcher M. fasciatus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; φοβος phobos  terror, fear, panic  < φεβομαι phebomai  to flee; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVII, labelled Muscicapinae: Muscipetinae & Platyrhynchinae, clearly shows the wide, heavily-bristled bill typical of a flycatcher, and the coronal streak of this group; "Myiophobus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 67. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa ferruginea Swainson = Muscicapa fasciata Müller." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 119) (see Empidochanes).
Synon. Empidochanes, Scotomyias.

inornata / inornatum / inornatus
L. inornatus  plain, unadorned  < in-  not; ornatus  adorned, decorated  < ornare  to adorn.
● See: mavornata