Ferruginous Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Here the details of the Ferruginous Hawk named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Archibuteo regalis Gen.Birds 1 pt1 p.[12] pl.6
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Buteo
Taxonomy Code: ferhaw
Type Locality: Real del Monte, Mexico.
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo. Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. Bateo, Biteo.
Synon. Amplibuteo, Archibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.
buteo
L. buteo, buteonis buzzard; "41. FALCO. ... Buteo. 14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis. Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16. Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1. Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).
regalis
L. regalis royal, regal < rex, regis king < regere to rule.
● TL Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico < Spanish real royal (Buteo).
● ex “Ouira Ouassou” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 < Tupí name Uirassú great bird, for an eagle (syn. Harpia harpyja).
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)