Leaden Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra rubecula
Protonym:  Todus rubecula Suppl.ind.orn. p.xxxii
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  leafly2
Type Locality:  Nova Hollandia = Sydney, New South Wales, fide Mathews, 1930, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, p. 500.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

rubecula
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy.  Epithet also given to unrelated species with red breasts, e.g. Mergus rubecula Palmer, 1836, a new name for the Red-breasted Merganser M. serrator.
● "99. MOTACILLA.  ...  Rubecula.  28. M. grisea, gula pectoreque fulvis. Fn. svec. 226.  Rubecula. Will. orn. 160. t. 38. Raj. av. 78. n. 3. Alb. av. I. p. 49. t. 51. Frisch. av. 3. t. 19. f. 2. Olin av. 16.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Erithacus).
● ex "Red-breasted Tody” of Latham 1787 (Myiagra).

Rubecula
● (syn. Erithacus Ϯ European Robin E. rubecula) Specific name Motacilla rubecula Linnaeus, 1758; "Fünfte Sippe.  Rothkehlchen. Rubecula, Briss. (Dandalus, Boje.)  ...  1) Das Fichtenrothkehlchen. Rubecula pinetorum, Br. (S. rubecula, Lath., Mot. rubecula, Linn.)" (C. Brehm 1831).  Var. Rubecola.
● (syn. Phoenicurus Ϯ Black Redstart P. ochruros) Med. L. rubecula  robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy; "Genus Rubecula; Robin.   The robin-redbreast . . .R. familiaris    The black redstart. . .R. tithys    The common redstart . . .R. arborea   ...   The form of these birds is too well known to require a description: it is intermediate between the nightingales (Philomela) and the chats (Rubetra). It presents itself, however, under two slight modifications, which differ a little in their habits; one, exemplified in the common redstart of this country; the other, in the robin: their respective peculiarities are, however, united in the black redstart (R. tithys), which species may accordingly be selected as the standard of the genus Rubecula" (Blyth 1833).

SUBSPECIES

Leaden Flycatcher (papuana)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula papuana
papuana
Papua or New Guinea.

Leaden Flycatcher (concinna)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula concinna
concinna
L. concinnus elegant, neat, pleasing.

Leaden Flycatcher (okyri)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula okyri
okyri
Anagram of subspecific name Myiagra rubecula yorki Mathews, 1912 (after Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia) (subsp. Myiagra rubecula).

Leaden Flycatcher (yorki)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula yorki
yorki
Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia.
● York, Western Australia (syn. Lichmera indisticta).

Leaden Flycatcher (rubecula)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula rubecula
rubecula
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy.  Epithet also given to unrelated species with red breasts, e.g. Mergus rubecula Palmer, 1836, a new name for the Red-breasted Merganser M. serrator.
● "99. MOTACILLA.  ...  Rubecula.  28. M. grisea, gula pectoreque fulvis. Fn. svec. 226.  Rubecula. Will. orn. 160. t. 38. Raj. av. 78. n. 3. Alb. av. I. p. 49. t. 51. Frisch. av. 3. t. 19. f. 2. Olin av. 16.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Erithacus).
● ex "Red-breasted Tody” of Latham 1787 (Myiagra).

Leaden Flycatcher (sciurorum)
SCI Name: Myiagra rubecula sciurorum
sciurorum
L. sciurorum  of the squirrels  < sciurus  squirrel.
• Albert F. Eichhorn (1882-1931) and his brother George E. Eichhorn (fl. 1918) Australian farmers, collectors; "Myiagra rubecula sciurorum subsp. nov.  for the brothers Eichhorn (Eichhorn = sciurus)"  (Rothschild & Hartert 1918) (cf. Mod. German Eichhörnchen  squirrel) (Jan van der Brugge in litt.) (subsp. Myiagra rubecula).