Freckled Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar
Here the details of the Freckled Nightjar named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus tristigma NeueWirbelth.Vog. p.105
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Caprimulgus
Taxonomy Code: frenig1
Type Locality: Gondar, Ethiopia.
Author: Rüppell
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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).
tristigma / tristigmata / tristigmatus
Gr. τρι- tri- three- < τρεις treis, τρια tria three; στιγμα stigma, στιγματος stigmatos brand < στιζω stizō to tattoo.
SUBSPECIES
Freckled Nightjar (sharpei)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus tristigma sharpei
sharpei
Dr Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) British ornithologist at BMNH 1872-1909, founder member of BOC 1892 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aegithalos bonvaloti, subsp. Anthoscopus sylviella, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, subsp. Caprimulgus tristigma, syn. Ceyx erithaca, syn. Chrysococcyx cupreus, subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Columba delegorguei, syn. Coracias naevius, subsp. Dactylortyx thoracicus, subsp. Dicrurus ludwigii, syn. Edolisoma incertum, syn. Eremomela icteropygialis saturatior, Euchrepomis, subsp. Eulabeornis castaneoventris, syn. Euschistospiza dybowskii, syn. Hypotaenidia philippensis, Lalage, syn. Laterallus spilonotus, syn. Lophura nycthemera lineata, Macronyx, subsp. Melanospiza bicolor, subsp. Meliphaga aruensis, syn. Merops pusillus cyanostictus, Monticola, syn. Muscicapa boehmi, syn. Myzomela melanocephala, subsp. Pachycephala pectoralis, syn. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Phyllastrephus strepitans, syn. Picumnus albosquamatus guttifer, Picus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, syn. Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa, Sheppardia, subsp. Sicalis uropigyalis, Smithornis, syn. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Sporophila morelleti, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, subsp. Telacanthura ussheri, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Trochalopteron milnei, Turdoides, syn. Zosterops atrifrons) (see sharpii).
Freckled Nightjar (pallidogriseus)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus tristigma pallidogriseus
pallidogriseus
L. pallidus pale < pallere to be pale; Med. L. griseum grey.
Freckled Nightjar (tristigma)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus tristigma tristigma
tristigma / tristigmata / tristigmatus
Gr. τρι- tri- three- < τρεις treis, τρια tria three; στιγμα stigma, στιγματος stigmatos brand < στιζω stizō to tattoo.
Freckled Nightjar (lentiginosus)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus tristigma lentiginosus
lentiginosa / lentiginosus
L. lentiginosus freckled, dotted < lentigo freckle.
Freckled Nightjar (granosus)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus tristigma granosus
granosus
L. granosus full of grains < granum grain, seed.
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)