Nicobar Sparrowhawk
Nicobar Sparrowhawk
Here the details of the Nicobar Sparrowhawk named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Astur butleri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 7 p.27
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Accipiter
Taxonomy Code: nicspa1
Type Locality: Car Nicobar.
Author: Gurney Jr, JH
Publish Year: 1898
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
ACCIPITER
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Eurasian Sparrowhawk A. nisus) L. accipiter, accipitris hawk < accipere to grasp (the original meaning was “to understand” rather than “to seize”) (cf. Med. L. accipiter Sparrowhawk; ancipiter Goshawk; "another possible origin is from the Greek aci for 'swift' and pertrum [?πτερον] for 'wing'." (Clark & Davies 2018)); "Accipiter. Genus 8. ... Les femelles des Oiseaux de ce genre sont plus grandes que leurs mâles. Elles sont aussi mieux faites, plus fortes & plus courageuses. Pour cette raison on appelle les mâles Tiercelets; parce qu'ils sont d'environ un tiers plus petits que leurs femelles. ... **1. L'EPERVIER. ... ACCIPITER." (Brisson 1760): based on "Accipiter minor" of Gessner 1555, "Accipiter fringillarius" of Gessner 1555, Schwenckfeld 1603, Jonston 1650-1653, and Charleton 1668, "Nisus" of Willughby 1676, and Sibbald 1684, and numerous other references; "Accipiter Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 28, 310. Type, by tautonymy, Accipiter Brisson = Falco nisus Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, 205).
Synon. Aerospiza, Aesalon, Asterias, Astur, Chirospizias, Cooperastur, Daedalion, Dinospizias, Erythrospiza, Eunisus, Eusparvius, Hieraspiza, Ierax, Leptohierax, Leucospiza, Lophospiza, Neonisus, Nisastur, Nisuoides, Nisus, Paraspizias, Phabotypus, Scelospiza, Sparvius, Spilospiza, Tachyspiza, Teraspiza, Urospiza.
butleri
● Arthur Lennox Butler (1873-1939) British tea-planter in Ceylon, collector, Curator of Selangor State Mus., Malaya, Superintendent of Game Preservation in Sudan 1901-1915 (syn. Anomalospiza imberbis, subsp. Ardeotis arabs, syn. Cinnyris osea decorsei, syn. Cisticola cantans concolor, syn. Columba livia schimperi, syn. Eremopterix nigriceps albifrons, syn. Lagonosticta larvata nigricollis, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, subsp. Ptilopachus petrosus, syn. Upupa epops).
● Lt.-Col. Edward Arthur Butler (1842-1916) British Army in Gibraltar, India and South Africa, collector, taxidermist, ornithologist (Accipiter, syn. Anthus chloris, Strix).
SUBSPECIES
Nicobar Sparrowhawk (butleri)
SCI Name: Accipiter butleri butleri
butleri
● Arthur Lennox Butler (1873-1939) British tea-planter in Ceylon, collector, Curator of Selangor State Mus., Malaya, Superintendent of Game Preservation in Sudan 1901-1915 (syn. Anomalospiza imberbis, subsp. Ardeotis arabs, syn. Cinnyris osea decorsei, syn. Cisticola cantans concolor, syn. Columba livia schimperi, syn. Eremopterix nigriceps albifrons, syn. Lagonosticta larvata nigricollis, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, subsp. Ptilopachus petrosus, syn. Upupa epops).
● Lt.-Col. Edward Arthur Butler (1842-1916) British Army in Gibraltar, India and South Africa, collector, taxidermist, ornithologist (Accipiter, syn. Anthus chloris, Strix).
Nicobar Sparrowhawk (obsoletus)
SCI Name: Accipiter butleri obsoletus
obsoleta / obsoletum / obsoletus
L. obsoletus plain, worn out, forgotten < obsolescere to wear out.
● ex “Plain Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (syn. Falco rusticolus).
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)