Denham’s Bustard

Denham\'s Bustard / Neotis denhami

Denham's Bustard

Here the details of the Denham's Bustard named bird below:

SCI Name:  Neotis denhami
Protonym:  Otis Denhami Narr.travelN.Cent.Afr.[Denham & Clapperton] App.XXI p.199
Taxonomy:  Otidiformes / Otididae /
Taxonomy Code:  stabus1
Type Locality:  No locality given = neighborhood of Lake Chad, fide Sclater, 1924, p. 113.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

NEOTIS
(Otididae; Ϯ Ludwig's Bustard N. ludwigii) Gr. νεος neos  new, different; ωτις ōtis, ωτιδος ōtidos  bustard; "NEOTIS, gen. n.  Simile generi "Lissotis" dicto, sed rostro longiore, culmine digitum medium cum ungue excedente.  Typus est Neotis ludwigi (Rüpp.)" (Sharpe 1893).

denhami
Lt.-Col. Dixon Denham (1786-1828) English explorer in West Africa, Lt.-Gov. of Sierra Leone 1828 (Neotis).

SUBSPECIES

Denham's Bustard (Denham's)
SCI Name: Neotis denhami denhami
denhami
Lt.-Col. Dixon Denham (1786-1828) English explorer in West Africa, Lt.-Gov. of Sierra Leone 1828 (Neotis).

Denham's Bustard (Jackson's)
SCI Name: Neotis denhami jacksoni
jacksoni / jacksonii
● Sidney William Jackson (1873-1946) Australian oologist, taxidermist, collector and curator for H. L. White 1907-1927 (subsp. Atrichornis rufescens, syn. Eopsaltria chrysorrhos magnirostris, syn. Gerygone fusca).
● Sir Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929) English explorer, colonial administrator, Lt.-Gov. of East Africa Protectorate 1907-1911, Gov. of Uganda 1911-1917, naturalist, collector (subsp. Acrocephalus gracilirostris, Apalis, subsp. Aplopelia simplex, syn. Bathmocercus rufus vulpinus, subsp. Chlorophoneus bocagei, Cryptospiza, syn. Cuculus clamosus, Euplectes, syn. Illadopsis pyrrhoptera, syn. Mirafra poecilosterna, subsp. Nectarinia tacazze, subsp. Neotis denhami, subsp. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Platysteira peltata mentalis, Ploceus, syn. Pogoniulus coryphaea hildamariae, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, Pternistis, subsp. Sylvia lugens, subsp. Sylvietta whytii, Tockus, syn. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus versicolor, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).
● C. Jackson (fl. 1829) English naturalist, collector (syn. Larus argentatus).
● Alfred Sloan Jackson (1901-1994) US teacher, biologist, pioneer gamebird field-researcher in Texas (syn. Vireo plumbeus).

Denham's Bustard (Stanley's)
SCI Name: Neotis denhami stanleyi
stanleii / stanleyanus / stanleyi / stanleyii / stanlii
● Edward Smith Stanley 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851) zoologist, collector and founder of Derby Mus., Knowsley Park (syn. Accipiter cooperii, syn. Anthropoides paradisea, syn. Gallus lafayettii, subsp. Neotis denhami, syn. Platycercus icterotis, syn. Podargus strigoides, ‡syn. Porphyrio albus, syn. Spinus barbatus).
Edward Henry Stanley 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893) traveller in North America, the West Indies, Ecuador and Bengal (Chalcostigma).
● Stanley Cramp OBE (1913-1987) English civil servant, ornithologist, editor of 'British Birds' 1960-1987, founding editor of  'Birds of the Western Palearctic' 1977 (Fred Ruhe in litt.) (subsp. Corvus rhipidurus).
● Dr Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945) British marine biologist, Superintendent of the Zoological Survey of India 1910-1924, Director of Plymouth Marine Laboratory 1936-1945 (subsp. Rhipidura albicollis).