Salvadori’s Nightjar
Salvadori's Nightjar
Here the details of the Salvadori's Nightjar named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus pulchellus Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 14 p.195
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Caprimulgus
Taxonomy Code: salnig1
Type Locality: Mt. Singalan, Sumatra.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1879
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
CAPRIMULGUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ European Nightjar C. europaeus) L. caprimulgus nightjar < capra nanny-goat < caper, capri billy-goat; mulgere to milk; “Those called goat-suckers ... enter the shepherds’ stalls and fly to the goats’ udders in order to suck their milk, which injures the udder and makes it perish, and the goats they have milked in this way gradually go blind” (Pliny X, lvi (ed. Rackham 1983)); this unfounded rustic superstition was for long associated with the European Nightjar; "NIGHT-HAWK (C. popetue). I have noticed, when skinning this bird, that the male, in spring, exhales a strong hircine odor. If this is common to all birds of the family, it may have added apparent reason to the superstition from which the family name is derived." (Coues 1874); "102. CAPRIMULGUS. Rostrum incurvum, minimum, subulatum, basi depressum. Vibrissæ ad os serie ciliari. Rictus amplissimus. ... Caprimulgus genere differt ab Hirundine, uti Strix a Falcone, Phalæna a Papilione." (Linnaeus 1758); "Caprimulgus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 193. Type, by tautonymy, Caprimulgus europaeus Linné (Caprimulgus, pre-binomial specific name in synonymy." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 196). Linnaeus's Caprimulgus, the final avian genus listed in his historic ground-breaking work, comprised two species (C. europæus, C. americanus).
Synon. Allasma, Capripeda, Climacurus, Cosmetornis, Creapyga, Crotema, Diaphorasma, Eximiornis, Hypsiphornis, Macrodipteryx, Nyctichelidon, Nycticircus, Nyctitypus, Nyctipornis, Nyctisyrigmus, Nyctivociferator, Phalaenivora, Rossornis, Scotornis, Semeiophorus, Stelidopterus, Vociferator.
caprimulgus
L. caprimulgus nightjar < capra nanny-goat < caper, capri billy-goat; mulgere to milk (cf. Gr. αιγοθηλας aigothēlas goatsucker).
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
SUBSPECIES
Salvadori's Nightjar (pulchellus)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus pulchellus pulchellus
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
Salvadori's Nightjar (bartelsi)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus pulchellus bartelsi
bartelsi
● Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (1871-1936) Dutch tea plantation manager, naturalist in Java 1895-1936 (syn. Aerodramus fuciphagus, subsp. Caprimulgus pulchellus, syn. Criniger bres, Nisaetus, subsp. Strix leptogrammica).
● Dr Max Bartels, Jr. (1902-1943) Dutch tea plantation manager, naturalist, son of M. E. G. Bartels (subsp. Arborophila javanica).
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)