Mariqua Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Bradornis mariquensis
Protonym:  Bradornis Mariquensis Ill.Zool.S.Afr. pl.113
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Bradornis
Taxonomy Code:  marfly1
Type Locality:  South Africa; restricted to Marico River, Transvaal, by Lawson, 1963, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, 83, p. 147.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BRADORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Mariqua Flycatcher B. mariquensis) Gr. βραδυς bradus  slow, sluggish; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "BRADORNIS* MARIQUENSIS.  — SMITH.   ...   Having failed to discover a proper place for this bird in any of the constituted groups of Brachypodinæ, I have considered it and another species, a little larger, as typical of a new group in the short-legged thrushes. The manners and mode of feeding of both species are much alike; they seek their food generally in dense thickets, and when in quest of it, move languidly from branch to branch. They usually observe a horizontal course, and unless the underwood in which they are discovered be limited, they are rarely noticed either to ascend or descend to any great extent. Their food consists of insects." (A. Smith 1847); "Bradornis H. [sic] Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pl. 113, 1847.  Type by original designation, Bradornis mariquensis Smith." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 405).
Var. Bradyornis.
Synon. Artomyias, Myopornis, Pedilorhynchus, Sericolius.

mariquensis
Mariqua / Marikwa / Marica / Marico River, South Africa. 

SUBSPECIES

Mariqua Flycatcher (acaciae)
SCI Name: Bradornis mariquensis acaciae
acaciae / acaciarum
Botanical genus Acacia Miller, 1754, acacia  < Gr. ακακια akakia  acacia, shittah-tree.

Mariqua Flycatcher (mariquensis)
SCI Name: Bradornis mariquensis mariquensis
mariquensis
Mariqua / Marikwa / Marica / Marico River, South Africa. 

Mariqua Flycatcher (territinctus)
SCI Name: Bradornis mariquensis territinctus
territinctus
L. terra  ground, earth; tinctus  dyed, coloured  < tingere  to dye.