Streak-necked Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Mionectes striaticollis
Protonym:  M[uscicapa] striaticollis Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.51
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Mionectes
Taxonomy Code:  stnfly1
Type Locality:  Yuracares, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MIONECTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Streak-necked Flycatcher M. striaticollis) Gr. μειονεκτηα meionektēs  small, having suffered loss  < μειονεκτεω meionekteō  to have too little; "Gen. Mionectes Cab. ¹)   ...   Alae mediocres, remigibus primariis interdum praecipue versus apicem angustatis, acuminatis ut in Tyrannis, earum secunda linearis vel filiformis ut in Psaridibus et Ampelidibus non-nullis.  Cauda mediocris, aequalis.  Pedes mediocres.  Sunt hujus generis species parvae, habitu Lipangis similes.   Typus: M. poliocephalus Tsch. — Muscicapa oleaginea Lichtenst.   ...   ¹) μειονεκτης damnum faciens." (Cabanis 1844); "43. Mionectes striaticollis  ...  Proposed race poliocephalus (Pasco and Junín, in C Peru) merged with nominate, as it occupies indistinct zone of intergradation between subspecifically recognizable plumage patterns of N & S Peru" (del Hoyo & Collar 2016, 160).
Var. Myonectes.
Synon. Anomalopterus, Pipromorpha.

striaticolle / striaticollis
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.

SUBSPECIES

Streak-necked Flycatcher (columbianus)
SCI Name: Mionectes striaticollis columbianus
columbiana / columbianum / columbianus
● Colombia. To this day the name of Colombia is misspelled in newspapers, scientific works (e.g. NAOC Vancouver 2012 Abstracts, p. 207) and books, and on television (e.g. BBC News Channel (Travel!) 14 May 2017), and generally wrongly pronounced there (e.g. Channel 4 Seven O’Clock News, 10 October 2011) and on radio (e.g. BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show 30 November 2016). “America ... north of the Isthmus of Darien, the southern continent being termed Columbia” (Wood 1835) (subsp. Chamaeza campanisona, subsp. Cinclodes excelsior, Crypturellus, Fulica, Ortalis, Phaethornis, subsp. Philydor rufum, subsp. Synallaxis gujanensis).
● Columbia River or Columbia River region (Oregon) (Cygnus (ex “Whistling Swan” of P. Allen 1814), syn. Gymnogyps californianus, Nucifraga, subsp. Pedioecetes phasianellus (ex “Grouse or Prairie Hen” of Lewis 1814), syn. Piranga ludoviciana).
● Greater Colombia (= Venezuela) (Odontophorus, Philydor).
● Columbia County, Florida, USA (‡ Palaeophoyx).
● British Columbia, Canada (subsp. Poecile hudsonicus).
● Erroneous TL. Porto Cabello, Colombia (= Ciudad Bolívar, Río Orinoco, Venezuela) (Sicalis).

Streak-necked Flycatcher (viridiceps)
SCI Name: Mionectes striaticollis viridiceps
viridiceps
L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; -ceps  -crowned  < caput, capitis  head.

Streak-necked Flycatcher (palamblae)
SCI Name: Mionectes striaticollis palamblae
palamblae
Palambla, Piura, Peru.

Streak-necked Flycatcher (striaticollis)
SCI Name: Mionectes striaticollis striaticollis
striaticolle / striaticollis
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.