Black-throated Bobwhite
Black-throated Bobwhite
Here the details of the Black-throated Bobwhite named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ortyx nigrogularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.119 p.181
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Odontophoridae / Colinus
Taxonomy Code: bltbob1
Type Locality: Mexico = Yucatan; of. Cabot, Journ. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 4, 1844, p. 460.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COLINUS
(Odontophoridae; Ϯ Northern Bobwhite C. virginianus) Nahuatl/Aztec name Zōlin for a quail. Hernandez 1651, has Colinicuiltic, which name was contracted by de Buffon 1770-1783, to “Colin” and early used in North America for the Bobwhites (cf. names Ocōzōlin and Tepēzōlin for a partridge, and Āzōlin for a snipe); "e. Colinus. Colin. Schnabel kürzer und mehr gewölbt; Schwanz deutlicher. Sitzen im Gesträuche. P. mexicana. Caille de la Louisiane. Pl. Enl. 149. Frisch. t. 113. Füße und Schnabel blutroth, Kopf schwarz, Kehle weiß, Körper oben braunroth, Schwanz gewellt, unten weißlich, mit schwarzen Strichen." (Goldfuss 1820); "Colinus Goldfuss, Handb. Zool., 2, 1820, p. 220. Type, by monotypy, "Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la Louisiana [sic], pl. Enl. no. 149" = Tetrao virginianus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 46).
Var. Colina, Colinia.
Synon. Eupsychortyx, Gnathodon, Neortyx, Ortygia, Ortyx.
nigrogularis
L. niger black; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.
SUBSPECIES
Black-throated Bobwhite (persiccus)
SCI Name: Colinus nigrogularis persiccus
persiccus
L. persiccus very dry < siccus dry.
Black-throated Bobwhite (caboti)
SCI Name: Colinus nigrogularis caboti
caboti
Dr Samuel Cabot, Jr. (1815-1885) US physician, collector in Yucatan 1841-1842, Curator of Ornithology for Boston Society of Natural History (subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Colinus nigrogularis, syn. Leuconotopicus fumigatus sanguinolentus, syn. Melospiza georgiana, Tragopan).
Black-throated Bobwhite (nigrogularis)
SCI Name: Colinus nigrogularis nigrogularis
nigrogularis
L. niger black; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.
Black-throated Bobwhite (segoviensis)
SCI Name: Colinus nigrogularis segoviensis
segoviensis
Río Segovia, Honduras.
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)