Tepui Redstart

SCI Name:  Myioborus castaneocapilla
Protonym:  Setophaga castaneocapilla ReisenBrit.-Guiana[Schomburgk] 3 p.667
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Myioborus
Taxonomy Code:  tepred1
Type Locality:  Roraima, 7,000 ft, British Guiana [= Venezuela] .
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIOBORUS
(Parulidae; Ϯ Slate-throated Whitestart M. miniatus verticalis) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; -βορος -boros  -devouring  < βιβρωσκω bibrōskō  to eat up; "a. Bill attenuated towards the end; lateral outlines straight or concave. Tail decidedly longer than the wings. Second quill as long as 6th.   Rictal bristles reaching nearly to tip of bill, which from gape is rather less than the length of skull. Tail considerably graduated (.50), the feathers soft, broad; the outer web of outer feather wide, nearly even, and about one-third the width of inner. A rufous patch on vertex. . . .Myioborus.   ...   Myioborus, BAIRD.  (Type Setophaga verticalis, SW.)  Rictal bristles very long, reaching to the end of the bill; the toes more as in ruticilla, though longer, the middle toe without claw about three-fifths the tarsus. The wings are shorter than the broad, soft, rounded tail, and the wing is much rounded; the 4th quill longest, the 1st about equal to the 7th.  The species of this section have been usually referred to Setophaga, but differ very appreciably as indicated." (Baird 1865). Doubtless mistakenly, Baird gave the type as Setophaga verticalis "Sw." when he meant Setophaga miniata Sw., 1827, but now Setophaga verticalis Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837, is generally so regarded.
Synon. Erythrosoma.

castaneocapilla / castaneocapillus
L. castaneus  chestnut-coloured  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; -capillus  -crowned  < capillus  hair of the head.

SUBSPECIES

Tepui Redstart (duidae)
SCI Name: Myioborus castaneocapilla duidae
duidae
Cerro Duida, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Tepui Redstart (castaneocapilla)
SCI Name: Myioborus castaneocapilla castaneocapilla
castaneocapilla / castaneocapillus
L. castaneus  chestnut-coloured  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; -capillus  -crowned  < capillus  hair of the head.

Tepui Redstart (maguirei)
SCI Name: Myioborus castaneocapilla maguirei
maguirei
Dr Bassett Maguire (1904-1991) US botanist, explorer, collector in tropical America, Curator and Director New York Botanical Gardens 1943-1975 (subsp. Myioborus castaneocapilla, syn. Phylloscartes nigrifrons).