Rwenzori Nightjar
Rwenzori Nightjar
Here the details of the Rwenzori Nightjar named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus ruwenzorii Bull.Br.Orn.Club 23 p.94
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Caprimulgus
Taxonomy Code: monnig2
Type Locality: Mubuku Valley, 9000 feet, Mt. Ruwenzori.
Author: Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year: 1909
IUCN Status:
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).
ruwenzorae / ruwenzori / ruwenzoria / ruwenzoriae / ruwenzorii
Ruwenzori Mts., Belgian Congo (= DR Congo)/Uganda.
SUBSPECIES
Rwenzori Nightjar (ruwenzorii)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus ruwenzorii ruwenzorii
ruwenzorae / ruwenzori / ruwenzoria / ruwenzoriae / ruwenzorii
Ruwenzori Mts., Belgian Congo (= DR Congo)/Uganda.
Rwenzori Nightjar (guttifer)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus ruwenzorii guttifer
guttifer
Mod. L. guttifer spot-bearing, spotted < L. gutta spot; -fera bearing < ferre to carry.
● ex Accipiter guttatus P. Sclater & Salvin, 1867 (subsp. Accipiter bicolor).
Rwenzori Nightjar (koesteri)
SCI Name: Caprimulgus ruwenzorii koesteri
koesteri
Paul Johann Heinrich Köster (1883-1962) German collector in Angola and South West Africa / Namibia (Caprimulgus, syn. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, syn. Psophocichla litsipsirupa stierlingi).
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)