Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Here the details of the Brown Cuckoo-Dove named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba phasianella Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.129
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Macropygia
Taxonomy Code: brcdov1
Type Locality: Near Port Jackson, New South Wales.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1821
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MACROPYGIA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Philippine Cuckoo Dove M. tenuirostris) Gr. μακρος makros deep; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump; "Macropygia, Sw. Wings moderate, rounded; the first and second quills graduated, and much shorter than the third. Tail long, graduated; the feathers very broad and obtuse. The rump feathers very thick set. Bill short: the gonys angulated. Tarsus plumed. Hinder toe longer than the tarsus. M. phasianella. Pl. Col. 100. Reinwardii. Ib. 248. infuscata. Lich. (Brazil.)" (Swainson 1837); "Macropygia Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation, Columba phasianella Temminck, 1824, pl. col. 100. (not Columba phasianella Temminck 1821) = Macropygia tenuirostris Bonaparte (Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol., 3, 1882, p. 132).1 ... 1 Gray mentions two species in 1840 and again in 1841 without designating a type; in 1855 he designates amboinensis which was not one of the originally included species. Strangely enough neither Bonaparte nor Reichenbach actually designated a type." (Peters 1937, III, 75).
Var. Hacropygia.
Synon. Coccyzura, Tusalia.
phasianella / phasianellus
Mod. L. phasianellus little pheasant < dim. L. phasianus pheasant < Gr. φασιανος phasianos pheasant.
● “Corpus Penelopi simile, gracile ... cauda elongata, inaequalis” (von Spix 1824) (Dromococcyx).
● “Cette Colombe, caracterisée par la forme de sa queue longue et cuneiforme ... queue très longue et très conique” (Temminck 1821) (Macropygia).
● “Long-tail’d Grous from Hudson’s-Bay ... This bird was brought by Mr. Isham from Hudson’s Bay, where it is called a Pheasant; its long tail and colour agreeing very well with our hen Pheasant” (Edwards 1750); "91. TETRAO. ... Phasianellus. 5. T. pedibus hirsutis, cauda cuneiformi, rectricibus tribus lateralibus albis. Urogallus minor, cauda longiore. Edw. av. 117. t. 117. Habitat in Canada." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pedioecetes).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)