White-browed Ground-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Muscisaxicola albilora
Protonym:  Muscisaxicola albilora Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 7 p.60
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Muscisaxicola
Taxonomy Code:  wbgtyr1
Type Locality:  'Chili ou Colombie'' indicated by the title of the paper; restricted to Santiago, Chile by Bangs and Penard, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63, p. 27.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MUSCISAXICOLA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant M. rufivertex) Portmanteau of genera Muscicapa Brisson 1760, flycatcher, and Saxicola auct. (= Oenanthe Vieillot 1816), wheatear; "G. MUSCISAXICOLA. Nob.   Pedibus valde elongatis, gracilibus, unguibus anticis brevibus, postice longiore parum curvato, alis prælongis, acuminatis; cauda mediocris apice recto; rostro tenui, valde compresso, elongato, non basi depresso, quibus omnibus characteribus habituque toto Saxicolis hujus generis species proxime accedunt.   ...   1. M. rufivertex, Nob.   ...   2. M. mentalis, Nob.   ...   3. M. maculirostris, Nob.   ...   4. M. striaticeps, Nob." (d'Orbigny & de La Fresnaye 1837); "Muscisaxicola d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Mag. Zool. [Paris], 7, cl. 2, p. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 24), Muscisaxicola rufivertex d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 168).
Synon. Ptyonura.

albilora / albiloris
L. albus  white; Mod. L. loris  lores  < lorum  lore  < L. lorum, lori  bridle.