Ashy-breasted Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Muscicapa randi
Protonym:  Muscicapa latirostris randi Nemouria no.1 p.10
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code:  asbfly1
Type Locality:  Dalton Pass, Nueva Vizcaya, Luzon, Philippine Islands; altitude 3,500 feet.
Author:  Amadon & duPont
Publish Year:  1970
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

MUSCICAPA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Spotted Flycatcher M. striata) L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch; "Genus Muscicapæ ...  Le genre du Gobe-mouche  ...  MUSCICAPA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Curruca" or "Ficedula" of Gessner 1555, "Grisola" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Stoparola" of Willughby 1676, "Curruca subfusca" of Frisch 1733-1743, and "Sylvia pestilentialis" of Klein 1750; "Muscicapa Brisson, 1760, Ornith., 1, p. 32; 2, p. 357, pl. 5, fig. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Muscicapa = Motacilla striata Pallas." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 313). The Spotted Flycatcher is the archetypal flycatcher, perching stolidly, then darting out to seize passing insects before returning to its perch.
Var. Muscicopa, Musicapa, Mussicapa, Muscapa.
Synon. Alseonax, Arizelomyia, Butalis, Hemichelidon, Myiotheras, Stoparola.

muscicapa
L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch.

randi
Dr Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) Canadian ornithologist, Curator at Field Mus., Chicago 1947-1970 (subsp. Arachnothera flammifera, subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis, syn. Malurus alboscapulatus aida, Muscicapa, Ninox, subsp. Pachycare flavogriseum, subsp. Saxicola caprata, subsp. Sericornis beccarii).