Streak-throated Bush Tyrant

Stripe -throated Bush Tyrant ( Myiotheretes striaticollis )

The stripe -throated Bush Tyrant ( Myiotheretes striaticollis ) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. His home is the north-western South America.

Features

Throat and upper breast are white with a bold black dashes, the rest of the underside is uniform cinnamon - reddish brown. The top is brown, with a bright stiff over the reins ( Supraloralstreif ). The wings are dark with one, depending on the moulting stage, variable cinnamon - reddish brown border and cinnamon under wing-coverts. The inner webs of the flight feathers are cinnamon - reddish brown and clearly visible in flight. The tail feathers are also cinnamon - reddish brown, the terminal third is colored darker. The stripe -throated Bush Tyrant is up to 23 cm long, its strong beak is black.

Dissemination

The stripe -throated Bush Tyrant lives in South America from Colombia to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to northwestern Argentina, and in the north in Venezuela. In its huge distribution area large populations live, though not in great density. In general, only couples or single copies are encountered.

Habitat and behavior

Its natural habitats are clearings or bushland in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests of the Andes at altitudes of 1700-3500 meters. Like most species of the family of the tyrant he waits, often in relatively high altitude on a branch, a high voltage line or sitting on a rock, on passing flying insects. These stand hunting, he returns back often.

History of Research

The stripe -throated Bush Tyrant was published by Philip Sclater in 1853 Lutley year 1851 described the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London as Taenioptera striaticollis first time. Sclater described in the same work also Taenioptera erythropygia, the Rostbürzel -Busch tyrant who is now managed by the scientific name Cnemarchus erythropygius. The genus Cnemarchus was associated by some authors with the genus Myiotheretes, others questioned the strip -throated Bush Tyrant in the vicinity of the genera Gubernetes and Muscipipra.

In 1906, Count Hans von Berlepsch described seven new neotropical birds in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club. One of them was the new subspecies M. s pallidus, which was collected by Louis Dinelli from the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires. Some bellows were presented to the Club by Carl Eduard Hellmayr.

Subspecies

Currently, two subspecies are distinguished:

• Myiotheretes striaticollis striaticollis ( Sclater, 1853) - Occurrence of the Sierra de Perijá and the Andes of Venezuela and Colombia to Peru ( south to the regions of Apurimac and Arequipa ).
• Myiotheretes striaticollis pallidus Berlepsch, 1906 - Occurrence of the Andes of Peru ( Cusco and Puno regions ) to Bolivia and northwestern Argentina ( south to the province of Tucumán ).

Etymology

The word " Myiotheretes " is of Greek origin and is composed of the words " Muia μύγα " for " Fly " and " thēratēs θηρατής " for " Hunter " together. The epithet " striaticollis " derives from the Latin words " striatus " for " striped " and " colli " for " neck, throat ". The Latin word " pallidus " derives from " pallere " for " pale / pale be " from.