Monteiro’s Hornbill

Monteiro\'s Hornbill / Tockus monteiri

Monteiro's Hornbill

Here the details of the Monteiro's Hornbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Tockus monteiri
Protonym:  Toccus monteiri Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.87 pl.5
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  monhor1
Type Locality:  Benguella.
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Publish Year:  1865
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DEFINITIONS

TOCKUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Red-billed Hornbill T. erythrorhynchus) "Les nègres du Sénégal lui ont donné le nom de tock, & nous avons cru devoir de lui conserver" (de Buffon 1770-1783) (cf. "Buceros galeatus [= Rhinoplax vigil] ... This species is called Toko ...  in Sumatra" (Raffles 1822)); "Sous-genre. TOCK; Tockus.  Bec recourbé, élevé, très-comprimé, à arête vive, à bords lisses et dentelés.   1. CALAO TOCK; Buceros erythrorhynchus, Briss., pl. 46, fig. 2. Enl., 260; Levaill., pl. 238; Buceros nasutus, Var. B.  ...  Habite le Sénégal" (Lesson 1830); "Tockus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 252. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros erythrorhynchus Brisson i.e. Temminck. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1945, V, 254).
Var. Toccus, Tocus (variant French name "Toc"), Poccus.
Synon. Alophius, Nototockus, Xanthorhynchus.

monteiri / monteiroi
● Joaquim João Monteiro (1833-1878) Portuguese mining engineer, collector in Angola 1858-1875 (subsp. Cecropis senegalensis, Clytospiza, Malaconotus, Tockus).
● Dr Luis Monteiro (1962-1999) Portuguese ecotoxicologist, ornithologist (Hydrobates).