Brown-streaked Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Muscicapa williamsoni
Protonym:  Muscicapa williamsoni Ibis 99 (2) p. 343
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code:  bnsfly1
Type Locality:  Khao Phanom Bencha, lat. 8° 15'' N., long. 98° 55'' E., Krabi Province, Thailand.
Author:  Deignan
Publish Year:  1957
IUCN Status:  

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.

williamsoni
● Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson (1867-1954) English civil servant in India, financial adviser to the Thai government, collector, oologist (subsp. Malacocincla abbotti, subsp. Micropternus brachyurus, subsp. Muscicapa dauurica, subsp. Ploceus manyar, subsp. Zosterops palpebrosus).
● Lady Marion Williamson (d. 1945) wife of English financial adviser Sir Walter J. F. Williamson in Thailand (subsp. Mirafra javanica).
● Capt. James Hay Williamson (d. 1898) British mariner, tea-merchant and pioneer tea-planter in Assam, co-founder of Williamson Magor tea plantation group (syn. Napothera brevicaudata striata).
● Lt.-Col. Robert Stockton Williamson (1824-1882) US Army, engineer, surveyor, explorer (syn. Sphyrapicus thyroideus).

SUBSPECIES

Brown-streaked Flycatcher (Brown-streaked)
SCI Name: Muscicapa williamsoni williamsoni
williamsoni
● Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson (1867-1954) English civil servant in India, financial adviser to the Thai government, collector, oologist (subsp. Malacocincla abbotti, subsp. Micropternus brachyurus, subsp. Muscicapa dauurica, subsp. Ploceus manyar, subsp. Zosterops palpebrosus).
● Lady Marion Williamson (d. 1945) wife of English financial adviser Sir Walter J. F. Williamson in Thailand (subsp. Mirafra javanica).
● Capt. James Hay Williamson (d. 1898) British mariner, tea-merchant and pioneer tea-planter in Assam, co-founder of Williamson Magor tea plantation group (syn. Napothera brevicaudata striata).
● Lt.-Col. Robert Stockton Williamson (1824-1882) US Army, engineer, surveyor, explorer (syn. Sphyrapicus thyroideus).

Brown-streaked Flycatcher (Umber)
SCI Name: Muscicapa williamsoni umbrosa
umbrosa / umbrosus
L. umbrosus  shady, of shade, of twilight  < umbra  shade.