Azure-crested Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra azureocapilla
Protonym:  Myiagra azureocapilla Ibis p.434
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  blcfly2
Type Locality:  Taveuni, Fiji Islands.
Author:  Layard, EL
Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

MYIAGRA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Leaden Flycatcher M. rubecula) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; αγρευω agreuō  to catch (cf. μυιαγρος muiagros  fly-catcher; myth. Myiagros, the Fly-catcher, an Elean god invoked against flies); "Genus. MYIÄGRA*.  Rostrum rectum, subbreve, depressum, basi latum, multo latius quam altum; mandibula superiore emarginata; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, setis plumulisque fere obtectis; rictu vibrissis fortibus hirsuto.  Alæ mediocres subrotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda duplo fere longiore, tertia quarta et quinta fere æqualibus longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, lata, æqualis aut interdum subfurcata.  Pedes graciles, mediocres; acrotarsiis scutellatis, scutorum suturis vix decernendis.  ...  1. RUBECULOIDES.  ...  2. PLUMBEA.  ...  3. MACROPTERA.  ...  Mr. Caley informs us that the boys of the colony used to call it Winter, the reason of which he does not give.  ...   *Mυια musca, and αγρευω venor." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 250. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Grau, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 32), Myiagra rubeculoides Vigors and Horsfield = Todus rubecula Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 516). 
Synon. Lophomyiagra, Mastersornis, Piezorhynchus, Platygnathus, Seisura, Submyiagra.

azureocapilla
Med. L. azureus  azure-coloured  < azura  lapis lazuli; L. -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.