South Polar Skua

South Polar Skua / Stercorarius maccormicki

South Polar Skua

Here the details of the South Polar Skua named bird below:

SCI Name:  Stercorarius maccormicki
Protonym:  Stercorarius maccormicki Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.12
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Stercorariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  sopsku1
Type Locality:  Possession Island, Victoria Land, lat. 71° 14'' S., long. 171° 15'' W.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

STERCORARIUS
(Stercorariidae; Ϯ Arctic Skua S. parasiticus) L. stercorarius  of dung  < stercus, stercoris  dung; skuas pursue other seabirds until they disgorge their food, the disgorged food once thought to be excrement, hence a former name 'Dung-hunter'; "Stercorarius. Genus 101.  ...  **1. LE STERCORAIRE. ... STERCORARIUS" (Brisson 1760): based on "Arctick Bird" of Edwards 1750; "Stercorarius Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p.l 56; 6, p. 149. Type, by tautonymy, Stercorarius Brisson = Larus parasiticus Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 311). 
Var. Stercoraria, Stercararius, Stercoreus.
Synon. Atalolestris, Cataracta, Coprotheres, Labbus, Lestris, Oceanus, Praedatrix.

stercorarius
L. stercorarius  of dung  < stercus, stercoris  dung (syn. Neophron percnopterus).

maccormicki
Robert McCormick (1800-1890) Royal Navy surgeon, polar explorer, naturalist (Catharacta (ex “Lestris...new species” of McCormick 1884)).