Amur Stonechat
or Stejneger's stonechat
Saxicola stejnegeri
The Amur stonechat or Stejneger's stonechat (Saxicola stejnegeri) is a species of stonechat native to eastern Asia.
Muscicapidae: Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca meaning a fly, and capere to catch.
Saxicola in Latin: saxum, rock + incola, dwelling in.
The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.
Amur: a river in NE Asia, rising in N Mongolia as the Argun and flowing southeast, then northeast to the Sea of Okhotsk: forms the boundary between Manchuria and Russia.
