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Message: <blockquote data-quote="macrourus" data-source="post: 3506229" data-attributes="member: 43747">Tyrrhenian Flycatcher is a perfect name, as the taxon nominotipico (the type taxon or type subspecies Muscicapa tyrrhenica tyrrhenica if you like) is tyrrhenica and it is from tyrrhenian sea area. Then balearica, is only a subspecies of tyrrhenica, therefore either no specific English name as for many other subspecies of many taxa of birds, or indeed Balearic Flycatcher. Mediterranean flycatcher is an horible hopeless name, asSpotted Flycather ( Muscicapa striata) is widely and commonly breeding all over Italy and most of Mediterranean countries. So, that name would be HIGHLY misleading.  Viganò & Corso (myself then :king::-O) proposed identification and morphological study on both tyrrhenica andd balearica, not only the latter as wrongly quoted, while Pons reported genetic studies (we were doing also this but arrived too late :eek!::eek!::-C:-C:-C) We are also finishing a new wide paper on their identification for Ducth Birding that will be published later this year. What is actually the taxa breeding in North Africa and Southern Spain is then another matter, and a different field of ongoing researches....</blockquote>