Eared Pygmy-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Myiornis auricularis
Protonym:  Platyrhynchos auricularis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 27 p.16
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiornis
Taxonomy Code:  eaptyr1
Type Locality:  Brazil; type from Rio de Janeiro, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 336.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eared Pygmy Tyrant M. auricularis) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "No. 79: Euscarthmus minutus W. Bertoni (sp. n.)  (Myiornis?) — guar.: jénero Tatshuri." (Bertoni 1901); "Myiornis Bertoni, 1901, Aves Nuevas Paraguay, p. 129. Type, by monotypy, Euscarthmus minutus Bertoni = Platyrhynchos auricularis Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 71).
Synon. Notorchilus, Perissotriccus.
● (syn. Cyanophaia Ϯ Blue-headed Hummingbird C. bicolor) "Die eine, mit geradem Schnabel, nennt man Fliegenvögel, (Myiornis, Ornismyia!!, Orthorhynchus,) weil zu ihr die kleinsten Arten gehören." (Gloger 1842).

auriculare / auricularis
Med. L. auricularis  ear, eared  < L. auricula  ear  < dim. auris  ear.
● ex “Oricou” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 9 < French oreille  ear; cou  neck (syn. Torgos tracheliotus).

SUBSPECIES

Eared Pygmy-Tyrant (cinereicollis)
SCI Name: Myiornis auricularis cinereicollis
cinereicolle / cinereicollis
L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.

Eared Pygmy-Tyrant (auricularis)
SCI Name: Myiornis auricularis auricularis
auriculare / auricularis
Med. L. auricularis  ear, eared  < L. auricula  ear  < dim. auris  ear.
● ex “Oricou” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 9 < French oreille  ear; cou  neck (syn. Torgos tracheliotus).