Yellow-footed Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Muscicapa sethsmithi
Protonym:  Pedilorhynchus epulatus seth-smithi Novit.Zool. 29 p.96
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code:  yeffly1
Type Locality:  Budongo Forest, Uganda.
Author:  van Someren
Publish Year:  1922
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MUSCICAPA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Spotted Flycatcher M. striata) L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch; "Genus Muscicapæ ...  Le genre du Gobe-mouche  ...  MUSCICAPA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Curruca" or "Ficedula" of Gessner 1555, "Grisola" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Stoparola" of Willughby 1676, "Curruca subfusca" of Frisch 1733-1743, and "Sylvia pestilentialis" of Klein 1750; "Muscicapa Brisson, 1760, Ornith., 1, p. 32; 2, p. 357, pl. 5, fig. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Muscicapa = Motacilla striata Pallas." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 313). The Spotted Flycatcher is the archetypal flycatcher, perching stolidly, then darting out to seize passing insects before returning to its perch.
Var. Muscicopa, Musicapa, Mussicapa, Muscapa.
Synon. Alseonax, Arizelomyia, Butalis, Hemichelidon, Myiotheras, Stoparola.

muscicapa
L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch.

sethsmithi
● David William Seth-Smith (1875-1963) English ornithologist, aviculturalist, broadcaster, Curator of Mammals and Birds, Zoological Society of London 1909-1939 (subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis).
● Leslie Moffat Seth-Smith (1879-1955) English government surveyor, collector in Uganda (syn. Guttera verreauxi, Muscicapa, syn. Phyllastrephus xavieri).