Satin Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra cyanoleuca
Protonym:  Platyrhynchos cyanoleucus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 27 p.11
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  satfly1
Type Locality:  Timor; error: Sydney, New South Wales, fide Mathews, 1930, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, p. 502.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
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.

cyanoleuca / cyanoleucos / cyanoleucus
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; λευκος leukos white.
● ex “Martin pêcheur à ventre sablé” of Temminck 1807 (Halcyon).
● ex “Yahaná blanco y celeste” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 381 (syn. Porphyrula flavirostris).
● ex “Golondrina de los timoneles negros” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 303 (Pygochelidon).