Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Myiotheretes striaticollis
Protonym:  Taenioptera striaticollis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1851) (1851), Pt19 no.231 p.193 pl.42
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiotheretes
Taxonomy Code:  stbtyr1
Type Locality:  Ecuador.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIOTHERETES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Streak-throated Bush Tyrant M. striaticollis pallidus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; θηρατης thēratēs  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVI, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, illustrates a variety of bristled and generally heavy-billed tyrant flycatchers, including this distinctly streak-throated bird; "Myiotheretes Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 66. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds., p. 48), "Tyrannus rufiventer D'Orb." = Myiotheretes striaticollis pallidus Berlepsch." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 160).
Synon. Ochthodiaeta, Orodynastes.

striaticolle / striaticollis
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.

SUBSPECIES

Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant (striaticollis)
SCI Name: Myiotheretes striaticollis striaticollis
striaticolle / striaticollis
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.

Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant (pallidus)
SCI Name: Myiotheretes striaticollis pallidus
pallidum / pallidus
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.
● ex “Pale Thrush” of Latham 1783 (Turdus).