Patagonian Tyrant

SCI Name:  Colorhamphus parvirostris
Protonym:  Myiobius parvirostris Zool.Voy.Beagle[Darwin] pt3 no.9 p.48
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Colorhamphus
Taxonomy Code:  pattyr2
Type Locality:  Tierra del Fuego, ''banks of the [La] Plata'' [error], and near Valparaiso in Chile; type is marked as from Santa Cruz, Patagonia, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 401.
Author:  Gould & Gray
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COLORHAMPHUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Patagonian Tyrant C. parvirostris) Gr. κολος kolos  short; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "A small flycatcher with a large head and small bill" (Jaramillo et al. 2003); "H (Parvirostres s. Elaïninæ): rostro parvo, sed crassiusculo, subtereti vel parum dilatato, ante medium levius compresso. Vibrissæ parvæ; color simplex, grisescens.   Colorhamphus n. g. (Myiobius parvirostris Gould, Beagle). Nomen a rostro parvo, quasi mutilo (κολος). Rostrum teres, parvum." (Sundevall 1872); "Colorhamphus SUNDEVALL, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tentamen, p. 59, 1872—type by orig. desig. Myiobius parvirostris DARWIN." (Hellmayr, 1927, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. V, p. 400).
Var. Coloramphus.

parvirostris
L. parvus  small; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Pato pico pequeño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 432 (syn. Anas sibilatrix).
● "54.  Tetrao, L.   141. urogallus, L.  (major, Br.  crassirostris, Brehm.  hybridus, L. cum Lyr. tetrice.  medius, Leisl.  intermedius, Langsd.  pseudourogallus, Brehm.  maculatus, Brehm.  urogalloides, Nilss.)   142. parvirostris, Bp.  (urogalloides, Middend.)" (Bonaparte 1856).  According to Mlíkovsky 2012, "the Black-billed Capercaillie should be called Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff, 1853, not Tetrao parvirostris Bonaparte, 1856." (syn. Tetrao urogalloides).