Fiscal Flycatcher / Melaenornis silens
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Fiscal Flycatcher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lanius silens Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 7 pt2 p.330
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code: fisfly1
Type Locality: forests of Auteniquoi ex Levaillant = Knysna district, Cape Province.
Author: Shaw
Publish Year: 1809
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "MELAENORNIS, n. Melasoma a, Swains. M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n. Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29. ... a Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).
Var. Melaehornis, Meloenornis.
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.
silens
L. silens, silentis silent, still < silere to be silent.
● ex “Tangara de la Guyane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 742 (syn. Arremon taciturnus).
● ex “Tangara de la Guyane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 742, and “Oiseau silentieux” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Arremon taciturnus).
● ex “Pie-grièche Silencieuse” of Levaillant 1801, pl. 74 (Melaenornis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
