White-winged Chough
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White-winged Chough
Here the details of the White-winged Chough named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Coracia melanorhamphos Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 8 p.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corcoracidae / Corcorax
Taxonomy Code: whwcho1
Type Locality: New South Wales.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1817
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CORCORAX
(Corcoracidae; Ϯ White-winged Chough C. melanorhamphos) Gr. κορακιας korakias type of ‘daw’ formerly identified with the chough; κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos raven < κρωζω krōzō to croak (cf. Gr. κορκορα korkora bird mentioned by Hesychius, not further identified; cf. French name "Corbicrave" < Corbeau raven; Crave chough); "LXXXIX.e Genre. CORBICRAVE, Corcorax. Bec moyen, élevé, fort, fendu jusque sous les yeux, comprimé sur les côtés; à mandibule supérieure voûtée, élevée; à arête notablement arrondie, à narines en partie cachées par les plumes avancées du front; à branche de la mandibule inférieure écartée, distante; ailes alongées, pointues; queue longue, étagée, ample et arrondie; tarses longs, forts, largement scutellés, à scutelles des doigts renflées. CORBICRAVE AUSTRALIEN; Corcorax australis. Crave noir; Fregilus leucopterus, Vig. et Horsf., Trans. Soc. Linn. Lond., t. XV, p. 265? Bec, tarses et plumage noirs. Habite la Nouvelle-Hollande. (Péron.)" (Lesson 1830); "Corcorax Lesson, 1830, Traité Orn., livr. 5, p. 324. Type, by monotypy, C. australis = Coracia melanorhamphos Vieillot." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 160).
Synon. Cercoronus.
melanorhamphos
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; ῥαμφος rhamphos bill.
SUBSPECIES
White-winged Chough (melanorhamphos)
SCI Name: Corcorax melanorhamphos melanorhamphos
melanorhamphos
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; ῥαμφος rhamphos bill.
White-winged Chough (whiteae)
SCI Name: Corcorax melanorhamphos whiteae
whiteae
Ethel Rosina White (1876-1926) wife of Australian collector Capt. Samuel White (syn. Corcorax melanorhamphos, syn. Geopsittacus occidentalis, subsp. Zanda funerea).
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)
