Micrastur Mintoni Bird

Micrastur Mintoni Bird

Micrastur Mintoni Bird

English Name:  Cryptic Forest-Falcon
Latin Name:  Micrastur mintoni
Protonym:   WilsonBull.(2002) (2002), 114 p.421,422,front.
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code:  cryfof1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Whittaker
Publish Year:  2003
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.

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Dr Clive Dudley Thomas Minton (b. 1934) British metallurgist, ornithologist, emigrated to Australia 1978, bird-ringer (Micrastur).