Asian Brown Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Muscicapa dauurica
Protonym:  Muscicapa Grisola var. Dauurica Zoogr.Rosso-Asiat. 1 p.461
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code:  asbfly
Type Locality:  Onon River, Dauria, Siberia.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1811
IUCN Status:  

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.

dauura / dauurica / dauuricae / dauuricus
Dauria, south-eastern Siberia (after the Dauuri or Daguuri, a nomadic Mongolian tribe that inhabited the area).

SUBSPECIES

Asian Brown Flycatcher (dauurica)
SCI Name: Muscicapa dauurica dauurica
dauura / dauurica / dauuricae / dauuricus
Dauria, south-eastern Siberia (after the Dauuri or Daguuri, a nomadic Mongolian tribe that inhabited the area).

Asian Brown Flycatcher (siamensis)
SCI Name: Muscicapa dauurica siamensis
siamense / siamensis
Siam, a former name for Thailand, and the origin of which is disputed (e.g. Pali suvannabhumi land of gold; Sanskrit syama dark; Portuguese corruption of Chinese name for the area Xian).