Black-billed Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Aphanotriccus audax
Protonym:  Praedo audax Smiths.Misc.Coll. 60 no.3 p.15
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Aphanotriccus
Taxonomy Code:  blbfly1
Type Locality:  Cana, 2,000 ft., eastern Panama.
Author:  Nelson
Publish Year:  1912
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

APHANOTRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Tawny-chested Flycatcher A. capitalis) Gr. αφανης aphanēs  unseen, obscure  < negative prefix α- a- ; φαινω phainō  to show; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "Aphanotriccus gen. nov.  (Tryannidæ [sic].)   Similar to Myiobius Gray but outermost primaries longer (the tenth equal to first instead of much shorter than secondaries, the ninth not shorter than fifth), rictal bristles weaker (not reaching to tip of bill), tail much longer than distance from bend of wing to end of distal secondaries, and without yellow on crown nor rump.   Type, Myiobius capitalis Salvin = Aphanotriccus capitalis.  (Aφανης, unseen, obscure; τρικκος, a small bird)" (Ridgway 1905); "Aphanotriccus Ridgway, 1905, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18, p. 207.  Type, by original designation, Myiobius capitalis Salvin." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 123).
Var. Aphantotriccus.
Synon. Praedo.

audax
L. audax, audacis bold < audere to be daring.
● ex “Bold Vulture” of Latham 1801 (Aquila).
● ex “Gobe-mouche tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 453, fig. 2, “Caudec” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Yellow-crowned Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Myiodynastes maculatus).