Mionectes Rufiventris Bird

English Name:  Gray-hooded Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Mionectes rufiventris
Protonym:  Mionectes rufiventris FaunaPeruana[Tschudi] Orn. p.148
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Mionectes
Taxonomy Code:  gyhfly1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MIONECTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Streak-necked Flycatcher M. striaticollis) Gr. μειονεκτηα meionektēs  small, having suffered loss  < μειονεκτεω meionekteō  to have too little; "Gen. Mionectes Cab. ¹)   ...   Alae mediocres, remigibus primariis interdum praecipue versus apicem angustatis, acuminatis ut in Tyrannis, earum secunda linearis vel filiformis ut in Psaridibus et Ampelidibus non-nullis.  Cauda mediocris, aequalis.  Pedes mediocres.  Sunt hujus generis species parvae, habitu Lipangis similes.   Typus: M. poliocephalus Tsch. — Muscicapa oleaginea Lichtenst.   ...   ¹) μειονεκτης damnum faciens." (Cabanis 1844); "43. Mionectes striaticollis  ...  Proposed race poliocephalus (Pasco and Junín, in C Peru) merged with nominate, as it occupies indistinct zone of intergradation between subspecifically recognizable plumage patterns of N & S Peru" (del Hoyo & Collar 2016, 160).
Var. Myonectes.
Synon. Anomalopterus, Pipromorpha.

rufiventer / rufiventra / rufiventre / rufiventris
Mod. L. rufiventris  red-bellied  < L. rufus  ruddy, rufous; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Pepoazá vientre roxizo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 205, and “Pepoaza à ventre rougeâtre” of Vieillot 1819 (Neoxolmis).
● ex “Grignet” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 126 (syn. Parisoma subcaeruleum).
● ex “Traquet à Cul Roux” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 188, fig. 2 (syn. Saxicoloides fulicatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 572, fig. 3, and “Rufous-vented Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “Velvet-headed Flycatcher” of Latham 1823 (Terpsiphone).