Madagascar Hoopoe

Madagascar Hoopoe / Upupa marginata

Madagascar Hoopoe

Here the details of the Madagascar Hoopoe named bird below:

SCI Name:  Upupa marginata
Protonym:  Upupa marginata Mus.Hein. 2 p.127,note
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Upupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  madhoo1
Type Locality:  Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1860
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DEFINITIONS

UPUPA
(Upupidae; Ϯ Hoopoe U. epops) L. upupa  hoopoe  < Gr. εποψ epops,  εποπος epopos  hoopoe; "58. UPUPA.  Rostrum arcuatum, convexum, subcompressum   Lingua obtusa, integerrima, triquetra, brevissima." (Linnaeus 1758); "Upupa Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Upupa epops Linné (Upupa, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 247). Linnaeus's Upupa comprised four species (U. Epops, U. paradisea, U. Eremita, U. Pyrrhocorax). Since classicial times the Hoopoe’s name in many languages has been onomatopoeic of its distinctive and familiar call (e.g. Arabic Hudhud, Dutch Hop, French Huppe puput, Portuguese Poupa, Spanish Abubilla).
Var. Hupupa, Eupupa.
Synon. Epops, Epopsides.

upupa
L. upupa  hoopoe  < Gr. εποψ epops, εποπος epopos  hoopoe.
● ex “Huppe du cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 697, Upupa varia Boddaert, 1783, and Upupa capensis J. Gmelin, 1788 (‡syn. Fregilupus varius).

marginata / marginatum / marginatus
L. marginatus  bordered, edged  < marginare  to emarginate  < margo, marginis  border, edge.
● “of the edge, in this case, the seashore” (Hockey et al. 2005) (Charadrius).
● ex “Perruche de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Varied-wing Parrot” of Latham 1781 (syn. Tanygnathus lucionensis).
● ex “Upupa marginata” of W. Peters MS (Upupa).
● ex “Columba macroura. Long-tail’d Dove” of Edwards 1751 (syn. Zenaida macroura).