Tablas Drongo

Tablas Drongo / Dicrurus menagei

Tablas Drongo

Here the details of the Tablas Drongo named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dicrurus menagei
Protonym:  Chibia menagei Occ.Pap.MinnesotaAcad.Nat.Sci. 1 (1), (December 8) p. 15
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicruridae /
Taxonomy Code:  tabdro1
Type Locality:  Badajoz, Tablas Island.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1894
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

DICRURUS
(Dicruridae; Balicassiao D. balicassius) Gr. δικρος dikros  forked; ουρα oura  tail; "125. DRONGO, Dicrurus.  Lanius, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec couvert de soies à la base, robuste; mandibule supérieure un peu carénée en dessus, échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Queue fourchue. — Rectrices 10.   Esp. Balicasse. — Fingah. — Drongo, Buff.  ...  Dicrurus [δικρους, furcatusουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 (April 14), Analyse, p. 41.  Type, by subsequent designation, ["Balicasse" of de Buffon =] Corvus balicassius Linnaeus (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 47)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 138).   
Var. Dicruratus (probably an involuntary lapsus or portmanteau of specific combination Dicrurus longicaudatus Hay, 1868), Dicrourus, Dicturus (OD per Martin Schneider).   
Synon. Balicassius, Bhringa, Bhuchanga, Bonaparteis, Chaptia, Chibia, Cometes, CrinigerDicrachibia, Dicranostreptus, Dicruropsis, Dissemuroides, Dissemuropsis, Dissemurulus, Dissemurus, Drongo, Drongus, DrymonaxEdolius, EdoliutaEntomoletesMelisseus, Musicus, Notochibia, Prepopterus, Trichometopus.
• (Dicruridae; syn. Dicrurus Black Drongo D. macrocercus) "Dicrurus (Auct)  Bhuchanga." (Hodgson 1841); "Dicrurus Hodgson, 1841, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (1), (no. 109), p. 29.  Classical replacement name for Bhuchanga Hodgson, a local substantive name considered inappropriate by some." (JAJ 2020) (see Alcopus).

menagei
Louis Francois Menage (1850-1924) US philanthropist who financed an expedition to the Philippines 1890-1893, real-estate developer whose company collapsed in 1893 and who fled, accused of embezzlement, to Guatemala and Mexico (subsp. Batrachostomus septimus, Dicrurus, ‡Gallicolumba, syn. Picoides maculatus).