Chestnut-throated Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra castaneigularis
Protonym:  Myiagra castaneigularis Ibis (3) 6 (24) p. 389-390
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  chtfly1
Type Locality:  Kandi = Mbua, Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands.
Author:  Layard, EL
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

castaneigularis
L. castaneus  chestnut-brown  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; Mod. L. gularis  of the throat, -throated  < L. gula  throat.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-throated Flycatcher (castaneigularis)
SCI Name: Myiagra castaneigularis castaneigularis
castaneigularis
L. castaneus  chestnut-brown  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; Mod. L. gularis  of the throat, -throated  < L. gula  throat.

Chestnut-throated Flycatcher (whitneyi)
SCI Name: Myiagra castaneigularis whitneyi
whitneyi
● Gertrude Whitney née Vanderbilt (1877-1942) US sculptress, patroness of the arts (syn. Ardenna pacifica).
● Harry Payne Whitney (1872-1930) US philanthropist who sponsored a series of expeditions to the Pacific 1921-1922 for AMNH (Megalurulus, subsp. Myiagra castaneigularis, syn. Pachycephala melanura x P. orioloides (according to Mathews 1930, p. 666, this form was named for Whitney I., Solomon Is., but the original description refers neither to a type nor its habitat), Pomarea, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus).
● Prof. Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896) US geologist, explorer (Micrathene).
● Bret Meyers Whitney (b. 1955) US ornithologist (Scytalopus, syn. Synallaxis cinerea).