Phylloscartes Oustaleti Bird

English Name:  Oustalet's Tyrannulet
Latin Name:  Phylloscartes oustaleti
Protonym:  Leptopogon oustaleti Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.47 pl.9 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Phylloscartes
Taxonomy Code:  oustyr1
Type Locality:  'Bogota''; error, type probably from Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 353.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1887
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PHYLLOSCARTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet P. ventralis) Gr. φυλλον phullon  leaf; σκαιρω skairō  to skip, to dance; "Gen. PHYLLOSCARTES **) nov. gen. — Laub-Tachuri.   183. 1. P. ventralis Nob.   Muscicapa ventralis "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 275. 2. — Tyrannulus ventralis Id. Tabl. méth. p. 27. — Elania ventralis Gray Gen. B. I. p. 250. 15. — Leptopogon ventralis Bp. Consp. I. p. 186. — Euscarthmus ventralis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 491.   ...   **) Von φυλλον (Laub) und σκαρτης (Springer).  Diese Gattung erinnert im Gefieder schon ganz an Leptopogon, hat aber einen breitern Schnabel mit weniger abgerundeter Firste und zeigt auch noch die für die Todinae characteristischen hohen Läufe." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Phylloscartes Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Mus. Heineanum, 2, p. 52. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa ventralis Temminck." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 63).
Synon. Guracava, Leptotriccus, Phyllooecia.

oustaleti
Jean Frédéric Émile Oustalet (1844-1905) French zoologist (hybrid Anas platyrhynchos x Anas superciliosa, syn. Chloris ambigua (ex Chrysomitris ambigua Oustalet, 1896), Cinclodes, Cinnyris, subsp. Megapodius freycinet, Nothoprocta, Phylloscartes, syn. Scotopelia peli, syn. Temnurus temnurus, subsp. Trochalopteron affine, syn. Tyto longimembris).