Sabine’s Puffback

Sabine\'s Puffback / Dryoscopus sabini

Sabine's Puffback

Here the details of the Sabine's Puffback named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dryoscopus sabini
Protonym:  Thamnophilus sabini Zool.Misc.[Gray,JE] 1 p.7
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  labpuf1
Type Locality:  Sierra Leone (see Gray, 1837, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1, n. s., p. 487).
Author:  
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

DRYOSCOPUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Black-backed Puffback D. cubla) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; σκοπος skopos  watcher, look-out  < σκοπεω skopeō  to inspect; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae.   ...   Dryoscopus: Lanius cubla Vaill. Afr. pl. 72 1, 2.  [u.] s. w." (Boie 1826); "Dryoscopus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Lanius cubla Shaw." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 316).
Var. Drioscopus.
Synon. Chaunonotus.

sabinei / sabini
● Joseph Sabine (1770-1837) English naturalist, barrister, Inspector of Assessed Taxes 1808-1835 (subsp. Bonasa umbellus, syn. Gallinago gallinago (Michael Grayson in litt.), Rhaphidura, syn. Rissa tridactyla).
● Gen. Sir Edward Sabine (1783-1883) British Army, astronomer, physicist, Arctic explorer 1818-1820, President of the Royal Society 1861-1871 (Dryoscopus, syn. Neafrapus cassini, Xema).

SUBSPECIES

Sabine's Puffback (sabini)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus sabini sabini
sabinei / sabini
● Joseph Sabine (1770-1837) English naturalist, barrister, Inspector of Assessed Taxes 1808-1835 (subsp. Bonasa umbellus, syn. Gallinago gallinago (Michael Grayson in litt.), Rhaphidura, syn. Rissa tridactyla).
● Gen. Sir Edward Sabine (1783-1883) British Army, astronomer, physicist, Arctic explorer 1818-1820, President of the Royal Society 1861-1871 (Dryoscopus, syn. Neafrapus cassini, Xema).

Sabine's Puffback (melanoleucus)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus sabini melanoleucus
melanoleuca / melanoleucos / melanoleucus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; λευκος leukos  white.
● ex "Buff-crested Woodpecker" of Latham 1782 (Campephilus).
● ex “Águila obscura y blanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 8 (Geranoaetus).
● “As Columba picata Latham 1801, was regularly used as valid in the 20th century, this precludes invoking the principle of reverse of precedence (ICZN 1999: 23.9.1.1, 23.9.1.2)” (McAllan 2007) (syn. Leucosarcia picata).
● ex “Esparvero negriblanco” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 28 (syn. Micrastur semitorquatus).
● ex “Plus petit Barbu à poitrine noir de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 688, fig. 2, “Plus petit Tamatia noir et blanc” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Lesser Pied Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Notharchus tectus).
● ex “Coucou huppé de la côte de Coromandel” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 872, “Jacobin huppé de Coromandel” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Coromandel Crested Cuckow” of Latham 1782 (syn. Oxylophus jacobinus).
● ex “Chipiu negro y blanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 144 (Poospiza).
● ex “Stone Snipe” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (Tringa).
● ex “Cordon Noir” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 150 (Sylvia artefact).