Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant / Hemitriccus mirandae

Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant / Hemitriccus mirandae

Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Hemitriccus mirandae
Protonym:  Todirostrum mirandae J.Orn. 73 p.266
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bbttyr2
Type Locality:  Sao Paulo, Serra da Ibiapaba, northern Ceara, Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1925
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DEFINITIONS

HEMITRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant H. diops) Gr. ἡμι- hēmi-  small  < ἡμισυς hēmisus  half; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "PHYLLOSCARTES   ...   In ihre Nähe würden zu stellen sein die Genera:  Hemitriccus Nob. (von ἡμι, halb und τρικκος = Todus).  (Musciphaga (!) Less. 1831).  Von Euscarthmus durch längere Flügel, stärken und breitern Schwanz und grössere Entwickelung der Bartborsten verschieden:   H. diops. — Muscicapa diops "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 144.1. — Todirostrum diops Lafr. R. Z. 1846. p. 365. 13. — Euscarthmus vilis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 490. — Muscicapa vilis Licht. in Mus. Berol. (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Hemitriccus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 52.  New name for Musciphaga Lesson, 1837, considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Hemitriscus.   
Synon. Andinotriccus, Bornscheinia, CampinaCeratotriccus, Euscarthmornis, Idioptilon, Inambariornis, Microcochlearius, Musciphaga, Snethlagea, Todirhamphus.

mirandae
● Prof. Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro (1874-1939) Brazilian ichthyologist (Hemitriccus, syn. Syndactyla dimidiata).
● Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez (1750-1816) Venezuelan revolutionary (subsp. Vireo leucophrys).