White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant / Myiornis albiventris

White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant / Myiornis albiventris

White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Myiornis albiventris
Protonym:  Orchilus albiventris Ibis p.389
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  wbptyr1
Type Locality:  La Merced, 2,600 ft., Peru.
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Publish Year:  1894
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DEFINITIONS

MYIORNIS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eared Pygmy Tyrant M. auricularis) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "No. 79: Euscarthmus minutus W. Bertoni (sp. n.)  (Myiornis?) — guar.: jénero Tatshuri." (Bertoni 1901); "Myiornis Bertoni, 1901, Aves Nuevas Paraguay, p. 129. Type, by monotypy, Euscarthmus minutus Bertoni = Platyrhynchos auricularis Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 71).
Synon. Notorchilus, Perissotriccus.
● (syn. Cyanophaia Ϯ Blue-headed Hummingbird C. bicolor) "Die eine, mit geradem Schnabel, nennt man Fliegenvögel, (Myiornis, Ornismyia!!, Orthorhynchus,) weil zu ihr die kleinsten Arten gehören." (Gloger 1842).

albiventer / albiventre / albiventris
L. albus  white; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Drongri à Ventre Blanc” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 171 (syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus).
● ex “Martin-pêcheur de l’Île de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (Halcyon).
● ex “Hirondelle à ventre blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 546, fig. 2 (Tachycineta).