White-necked Hawk
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White-necked Hawk
Here the details of the White-necked Hawk named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco lacernulatus Pl.Col. livr.74 pl.437,text
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Buteogallus
Taxonomy Code: whnhaw2
Type Locality: Brazil. Type from vicinity of Rio de Janeiro.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1827
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
BUTEOGALLUS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Rufous Crab Hawk B. aequinoctialis) Compound of genera Buteo de Lacépède, 1799, buzzard, and Gallus Brisson, 1766, fowl (e.g. turkey); the Rufous Crab Hawk, by reason of its bare face, short tail, small head, heavy body, and long reticulated legs, was considered to resemble the Turkey Vulture (cf. "Buteogallus anthracinus ... A black Buteonine Hawk with exceptional width of wing, long chicken-like yellow legs." (Peterson 1961)); "III.e Sous-genre. BUSON; Buteogallus. Bec long, d'abord droit, à bords renflés pour simuler une dent; mandibule inférieure échancrée au bout; face nue; narines ouvertes, petites, arrondies, dorsales; bec comprimé sur les côtés; ailes concaves, n'atteignant que le milieu de la queue; celle-ci rectiligne, courte; tarses assez longs, emplumés jusqu'au genou seulement, squameux en avant, réticulés sur les côtés et en arrière; tête petite, corps lourd et massif. BUSON CATHARTOÏDE; Buteogallus cathartoides. Falco buson, Lath., Shaw; le Buson, Levaill., Afriq., pl. 21; Caracara buson, Vieill., Encycl., t. III, p. 1182. ... Le buson habite la Guiane (Mus. de Paris; M. Leblond), et le Paraguay, suivant d'Azara, qui le nomme gavilan de estero rozo obscuro." (Lesson 1830); "Buteogallus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 2, 1830, p. 83. Type, by monotypy, Buteogallus cathartoides Lesson = Falco æquinoctialis Gmelin." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 244).
Synon. Alectromorphnus, Amadonastur, Harpyhaliaetus, Heterospizias, Hypomorphnus, Miraquila, Plangus, Spizageranus, Urubitinga, Urubitornis, Wetmoregyps.
lacernulata / lacernulatus
Mod. L. lacernulatus mantled, cloaked < L. lacernula small cloak < dim. lacerna mantle (cf. Late L. lacernula tippet).
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)
