Melaenornis Silens Bird

English Name:  Fiscal Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Melaenornis silens
Protonym:  Lanius silens Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 7 pt2 p.330
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code:  fisfly1
Type Locality:  forests of Auteniquoi ex Levaillant = Knysna district, Cape Province.
Author:  Shaw
Publish Year:  1809
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma ^a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   ^a Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. Melaehornis, Meloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

silens
L. silens, silentis  silent, still  < silere  to be silent.
● ex “Tangara de la Guyane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 742 (syn. Arremon taciturnus).
● ex “Tangara de la Guyane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 742, and “Oiseau silentieux” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Arremon taciturnus).
● ex “Pie-grièche Silencieuse” of Levaillant 1801, pl. 74 (Melaenornis).