Fairy Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Stenostira scita
Protonym:  Muscicapa scita Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 21 p.474
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Stenostira
Taxonomy Code:  faifly1
Type Locality:  Lower Orange River ex Levaillant (cf. Lawson, 1962, Durban Mus. Novit., 6, p. 217).
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STENOSTIRA
(Stenostiridae; Ϯ Fairy Flycatcher S. scita) Gr. στηνος stēnos  narrow, thin; στειρα steira  ship’s beak, forepart of keel; alluding to the thin, narrow bill of the Fairy Flycatcher; "671. Stenostira, Caban. et Bp. 1850. (Platystira, p. Sw.)   Africa.   1.   MUSCICAPA scita, Vieill. (tenella, Licht. - Platysteira longipes, Sw. - scita, Gr.) Lev. Afr. iv. t. 154. - Nat. Libr. x. Flycatch. t. 21.  ex Afr. mer." (Cabanis & Bonaparte 1850); "Stenostira Cabanis and Bonaparte, 1850, in Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, 1, p. 316. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa scita Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 172).    
Synon. Empidivora, Muscylvia.

scita
L. scitus  pretty, fine  < sciscere  to approve by voting.
● ex "Mignard" of Levaillant 1805, pl. 154, figs. 1-2 (Stenostira).

SUBSPECIES

Fairy Flycatcher (scita)
SCI Name: Stenostira scita scita
scita
L. scitus  pretty, fine  < sciscere  to approve by voting.
● ex "Mignard" of Levaillant 1805, pl. 154, figs. 1-2 (Stenostira).

Fairy Flycatcher (rudebecki)
SCI Name: Stenostira scita rudebecki
rudebecki
Dr Gustaf Edvard Rudebeck (1913-2005) Swedish ornithologist, at Transvaal Mus. 1950-1951, 1954-1956 (subsp. Stenostira scita).

Fairy Flycatcher (saturatior)
SCI Name: Stenostira scita saturatior
saturatior / saturatium / saturatius
L. saturatior, saturatioris  more richly coloured, intensely coloured  < saturare  to satisfy  < satur, satura  rich, copious  < satis  enough.