Mongolian Ground-Jay
Mongolian Ground-Jay
Here the details of the Mongolian Ground-Jay named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Podoces Hendersoni Ibis p.408
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Podoces
Taxonomy Code: mogjay1
Type Locality: no locality [= ''desert after leaving Sanju en route to Koshtak, and also near Oi-Tograk'' (= Sinkiang on the way to Yarkand); see Henderson and Hume, 1873, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 244].
Author: Hume
Publish Year: 1871
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PODOCES
(Corvidae; Ϯ Turkestan Ground Jay P. panderi) Gr. ποδωκης podōkēs swift-footed, quick < πους pous, ποδος podos foot; ωκυς ōkus quick; "PODOCES, novum avium genus. a ποδωκης, pedibus celer ... Pedes ambulatorii fortissimi tarsis longis ... PODOCES Panderi ... Habitat gregarie et uti videtur transitorie in desertis retro Orenburg; - celerrime currit, parum volat. Habitus Corvorum; ab iis vero rostro, alis pedibusque valde distans" (Fischer von Waldheim 1821); "Podoces Fischer, 1821, Lettre adressée . . .de la Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou à . . .Pander, p. 6. Type, by monotypy, Podoces panderi Fischer." (Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 254).
Synon. Eopodoces.
hendersoni / hendersonii
● Robert B. Henderson (1860-1918) US businessman in Venezuela and Trinidad, US Consul to Ciudad Bolivar 1893-1911, collector (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Anthracothorax prevostii).
● Dr George Henderson (1837-1929) British medical officer on Lahore-Yarkand Expedition 1870, Superintendent of Botanical Gardens, Calcutta (subsp. Falco cherrug, syn. Oenanthe pleschanka, Podoces).
● Dr John Brooks Henderson (1870-1923) US physician, naturalist, malacologist, collector (subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● Archibald Douglas Henderson (1878-1963) Canadian ornithologist, oologist (subsp. Limnodromus griseus).
● Dr Andrew Augustus Henderson (1816-1875) US Navy surgeon, naturalist, collector (subsp. Locustella lanceolata, syn. Otus senegalensis).
● Henderson I., Pitcairn Group, South Pacific Ocean (named by Capt. Henderson of the Hon. East India Co. (HEIC) who landed on the island in 1819) (syn. Vini stepheni).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)