McConnell's flycatcher

McConnell's flycatcher (Mionectes macconnelli) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in the Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

McConnell's flycatcher
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Mionectes
Species:
M. macconnelli
Binomial name
Mionectes macconnelli
(Chubb C., 1919)
Synonyms

Pipromorpha oleaginea macconnelli

McConnell's flycatcher was described by the English ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1919 as a subspecies of the ochre-bellied flycatcher. He coined the trinomial name Pipromorpha oleaginea macconnelli and specified the type location as the Kamakabra River in British Guiana.[2] The name macconnelli was chosen to honour the memory of Frederick Vavasour McConnell (1868-1914), an English traveller and collector.[3] It was treated as a separate species by the American ornithologist Clyde Todd in 1921,[4] and was placed in the genus Mionectes by Melvin Traylor in Volume 8 of the Check-list of Birds of the World published in 1979.[5] The species is monotypic.[6]

McConnell's flycatcher is about 13 cm (5.1 in) in length and has olive upperparts, mainly dull ochraceous underparts and a narrow bill.[7]

This species was formerly considered conspecific with Sierra de Lema flycatcher (Mionectes roraimae). The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.[8][6]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "McConnell's Flycatcher". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. Chubb, Charles (1919). "New forms of South-American birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 9. 4: 301-304 [303].
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "macconnelli". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. Todd, W. E. Clyde (1921). "Studies in the Tyrannidae. I. A revision of the genus Pipromorpha". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 34: 173–192.
  5. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 58.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  7. Ridgely, Robert S.; Tudor, Guy (2009). Birds of South America: Passerines. Helm Field Guides. London: Christopher Helm. p. 423. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.
  8. Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.

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