Barred Forest-Falcon

SCI Name:  Micrastur ruficollis
Protonym:  Sparvius ruficollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 10 p.322
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code:  baffal1
Type Locality:  South America; restricted to Rio de Janeiro by Naumburg, 1930, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 60, p. 105.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros  little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841).  Brachypterus^c, Less. (1837).  Astur, Spix.   M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141.  F. concentricus, Ill.   ...   ^cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.

ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis  red-necked, rufous-necked  < L. rufus  red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).

SUBSPECIES

Barred Forest-Falcon (guerilla)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis guerilla
guerilla
Spanish guerrilla  guerrilla, patriotic fighter  < dim. guerra  war.
● This form was collected during the march of the US Army from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in 1847, "when it was constantly attended by bands of armed inhabitants, or guerillas, who hovered in its vicinity for the purpose of committing depredations upon persons who ventured away from the main body" (Cassin 1848) (subsp. Micrastur ruficollis).

Barred Forest-Falcon (interstes)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis interstes
interstes
L. interstes, interstitis  that stands between  <  interstere  to stand between.

Barred Forest-Falcon (zonothorax)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis zonothorax
zonothorax
Gr. ζωνη zōnē  band, girdle; θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  cuirass, breast-plate.

Barred Forest-Falcon (concentricus)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis concentricus
concentrica / concentricus
Med. L. concentricus concentric, concentric circle.

Barred Forest-Falcon (ruficollis)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis ruficollis
ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis  red-necked, rufous-necked  < L. rufus  red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).

Barred Forest-Falcon (olrogi)
SCI Name: Micrastur ruficollis olrogi
olrogi
Claës Christian Olrog (1912–1985) Swedish ornithologist resident in Argentina 1948-1985 (subsp. Celeus lugubris, Cinclodes, subsp. Micrastur ruficollis, ‡Pampaemberiza).