Humblot’s Heron

Humblot\'s Heron / Ardea humbloti

Humblot's Heron

Here the details of the Humblot's Heron named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ardea humbloti
Protonym:  Ardea humbloti Hist.Nat.Madagascar.Ois. 1 p.546
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae /
Taxonomy Code:  humher1
Type Locality:  eastern Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1885
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DEFINITIONS

ARDEA
(Ardeidae; Ϯ Grey Heron A. cinerea) L. ardea  heron. In Roman myth. the town of Ardea, capital of the Rutuli, was razed to the ground, and from the ashes rose a pale, lean bird, shaking the cinders from its wings and uttering mournful cries; "76. ARDEA.  Rostrum rectum, acutum, longum, subcompressum, sulco e naribus, versus apicem exaratum.  Pedes tetradactyli." (Linnaeus 1758); "Ardea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 141. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 60), Ardea cinerea Linnaeus." (Payne in Peters, 1979, I, ed. 2, p. 195). Linnaeus's Ardea comprised nineteen species (A. pavonina, A. Virgo, A. canadensis, A. Grus, A. americana, A. Antigone, A. Ciconia, A. nigra, A. Nycticorax, A. cinerea, A. Herodias, A. violacea, A. cærulea, A. striata, A. virescens, A. stellaris, A. alba, A. Ibis, A. æquinoctialis).
Var. Ardaea, Ardeae, Ardua.   
Synon. Afrardea, Ardeomega, Audubonia, Casmerodius, Erodius, Herodias, Megerodius, Mesophoyx, Myola, Phoyx, Pyrrherodia, Tonophoyx, Typhon.

humbloti
Henry Joseph Léon Humblot (1852-1914) French Resident of Grande Comore 1889-1896, collector in Madagascar (Ardea, Cinnyris, syn. Circus maillardi macrosceles, syn. Otus mayottensis).