Narrow-tailed Starling
Narrow-tailed Starling
Here the details of the Narrow-tailed Starling named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Poeoptera lugubris Compt.Rend. 38 p.381
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Poeoptera
Taxonomy Code: natsta1
Type Locality: No locality = Gabon, fide Hartlaub, 1857, S3^st. Orn. Westafr., p. 69.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1854
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
POEOPTERA
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Narrow-tailed Starling P. lugubris) Gr. φαιος phaios grey (cf. πολιος polios grey); -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; "Noticeably slender: ad ♂ is black (shows a violet sheen in good light), with creamy-yellow eyes, dull brown-grey wings, and a long narrow graduated tail. Ad ♀ is duller and greyer on the head with chestnut primaries." (Stevenson & Fanshawe 2002); "La soi-disant Muscicapa lugubris, du baron de Muller, est peut-être une des nouvelles Melænornis de Sundeval; toutefois, s'il a voulu illustrer une espèce abyssinienne que nous conservons dans le Musée de Paris, nous lui trouvons un aspect Saxicolien qui nous la fait rapprocher des genres Gervaisia, Bp., et Thamnolæa, Cab.: nous en constituons le genre Poeoptera, Bp., et nous appellerons l'espèce lugubris, qu'elle soit ou non la lugubris, Mull., Nouv. Ois. d'Afrique, I, t. 2. Atro-cyanea: remigibus interne subtusque latissime cinereo-chalybæis." (Bonaparte 1854); "Poeoptera Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend., 38, p. 381. Type, by monotypy, Poeoptera lugubris Bonaparte." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 86).
Var. Paeoptera, Poeopterus, Polioptera.
Synon. Arizelopsar, Myiopsar, Stilbopsar.
lugubris
L. lugubris mournful, plaintive < lugere to mourn.
● ex “Merle brun du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 563, fig. 1 (unident.).
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)