Montane Forest Screech-Owl / Megascops hoyi
WBN 
Montane Forest Screech-Owl
SCI Name:
Protonym: Otus hoyi Stutt.Beitr.Naturk. 428 p.4
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Megascops
Taxonomy Code: mofsco1
Type Locality:
Author: König, C & Straneck
Publish Year: 1989
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEGASCOPS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Eastern Screech Owl M. asio) Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē great; genus Scops Brünnich, 1772, owl. "5tes Subgenus. Megascops, Kp., Asiones, Schleg. Schnabel vorgestreckt. Flügel kurz und stumpf. 1ste Schwinge so lang wie die 10te. 1ste bis 5te Schwinge an der Aussen- und Innenfahne deutlich ausgeschnitten. Fusswurzel befiedert. Zehen meist vollständig nackt. 8. Scops asio, Gr. Less." (Kaup 1851). The Eastern Screech Owl and its New World congeners were formerly placed in the genus Scops (= Otus).
Synon. Athene, Gymnasio, Pseudociccaba.
hoyi / hoyianus
● Gunnar Arthur Höy (1901-1996) German/Swedish ornithologist born in Norway, emigrated to Argentina 1951, Curator of Natural History Mus., University of Salta (subsp. Geositta rufipennis, Megascops, subsp. Spinus magellanicus).
● Dr Philo Roniayne Hoy (1816-1892) US ornithologist (syn. Grus americanus).
● Charles McCauley Hoy (1897-1923) US collector in Australia 1919, and China 1922-1923 (syn. Otocompsa sinensis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
