Dull Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra hebetior
Protonym:  Monarcha hebetior Novit.Zool. 31 p.270
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  dulfly1
Type Locality:  St. Matthias (= Mussau) Island.
Author:  Hartert, E
Publish Year:  1924
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MYIAGRA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Leaden Flycatcher M. rubecula) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; αγρευω agreuō  to catch (cf. μυιαγρος muiagros  fly-catcher; myth. Myiagros, the Fly-catcher, an Elean god invoked against flies); "Genus. MYIÄGRA*.  Rostrum rectum, subbreve, depressum, basi latum, multo latius quam altum; mandibula superiore emarginata; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, setis plumulisque fere obtectis; rictu vibrissis fortibus hirsuto.  Alæ mediocres subrotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda duplo fere longiore, tertia quarta et quinta fere æqualibus longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, lata, æqualis aut interdum subfurcata.  Pedes graciles, mediocres; acrotarsiis scutellatis, scutorum suturis vix decernendis.  ...  1. RUBECULOIDES.  ...  2. PLUMBEA.  ...  3. MACROPTERA.  ...  Mr. Caley informs us that the boys of the colony used to call it Winter, the reason of which he does not give.  ...   *Mυια musca, and αγρευω venor." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 250. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Grau, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 32), Myiagra rubeculoides Vigors and Horsfield = Todus rubecula Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 516). 
Synon. Lophomyiagra, Mastersornis, Piezorhynchus, Platygnathus, Seisura, Submyiagra.

hebetior
L. hebetior, hebetioris  dull  < comp. hebes, hebetis  blunt, dull.

SUBSPECIES

Dull Flycatcher (Mussau)
SCI Name: Myiagra hebetior hebetior
hebetior
L. hebetior, hebetioris  dull  < comp. hebes, hebetis  blunt, dull.

Dull Flycatcher (Velvet)
SCI Name: Myiagra hebetior eichhorni
eichhorni
Albert Frederic Eichhorn (d. 1931) Australian farmer, gold-miner, collector in New Guinea, the Bismarcks, and Solomon Is. (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aerodramus spodiopygius, subsp. Alopecoenas johannae, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, subsp. Leptocoma aspasia, Myiagra, Myzomela, subsp. Ninox jacquinoti, Philemon, subsp. Zoothera heinei, subsp. Zosterops griseotinctus).

Dull Flycatcher (Djaul)
SCI Name: Myiagra hebetior cervinicolor
cervinicolor
L. cervinus  pertaining to a deer  < cervus  deer, stag; color, coloris  colour.