Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Southern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Here the details of the Southern Rough-winged Swallow named bird below:

SCI Name:  Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
Protonym:  Hirundo ruficollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 14 p.523
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae /
Taxonomy Code:  srwswa1
Type Locality:  Brazil.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

STELGIDOPTERYX
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Northern Rough-winged Swallow S. serripennis) Gr. στελγις stelgis, στελγιδος stelgidos  strigil, scraper; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos  wing; "Each will form the type of a special division, of at least sub-generic value, with the following characters  ...  STELGIDOPTERYX, Baird. - Tarsi naked. Edge of outer primary with the fibrillae converted into a series of stiffened recurved hooks.  Above light sooty brown; the under parts brownish ash, fading behind into white.  S. serripennis.  ...  COTYLE SERRIPENNIS, Bonap.  Rough-winged Swallow.  ...  Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennulae of the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recurved into a hook very appreciable to the touch" (Baird 1858); "Stelgidopteryx [subgenus] Baird, 1858, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pacific, 9, p. xxxiv, 312. Type, by montypy, Hirundo serripennis Audubon." (Peters 1960, IX, 92).
Var. Stelgidopterus.

ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis  red-necked, rufous-necked  < L. rufus  red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
 ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).

SUBSPECIES

Southern Rough-winged Swallow (uropygialis)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx ruficollis uropygialis
uropygialis / uropygiata / uropygiatus
Med. L. uropygium  rump  < Gr. ουροπυγιον ouropugion  bird’s rump.

Southern Rough-winged Swallow (decolor)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx ruficollis decolor
decolor
L. decolor, decoloris  pale, faded, off-colour, discoloured  < de  after, from; color, coloris  colour.

Southern Rough-winged Swallow (aequalis)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx ruficollis aequalis
aequalis
L. aequalis  equal, even, level  < aequare  to make level  < aequus  equal.

Southern Rough-winged Swallow (ruficollis)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx ruficollis ruficollis
ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis  red-necked, rufous-necked  < L. rufus  red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
 ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).