Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher / Melaenornis ardesiacus

Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher / Melaenornis ardesiacus

Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Melaenornis ardesiacus
Protonym:  Meloenornis ardesiaca Bull.Mus.Nat.Hist.Nat.Paris(2), 8 p.329
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yebfly2
Type Locality:  Mbwahi, Kivu, Belgian Congo; altitude about 2,000 meters.
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Publish Year:  1936
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. MelaehornisMeloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

ardesiaca / ardesiacea / ardesiacus
Mod. L. ardesiacus  slate-coloured, slaty  < French ardoisé  slate-grey.