Black Currawong

SCI Name:  Strepera fuliginosa
Protonym:  Coronica fuliginosa Syn.BirdsAustr. pt1 pl.5 fig.1,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Strepera
Taxonomy Code:  blacur2
Type Locality:  Van Diemen''s Land = Tasmania.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STREPERA
(Artamidae; Ϯ Pied Currawong S. graculina) Specific name Coracias strepera Latham 1790; "IV.^e Sous-genre. RÉVEILLEUR; Strepera; Coracias, Lath.   Bec long, robuste, conique, égal, presque droit, peu convexe, à arête épaisse et renflée; narines en fente longitudinale, ouverte; quelques soies à la commissure; ailes courtes; queue longue, arrondie; tarses assez minces, alongés, scutellés.   Observ. Ce sous-genre établit le passage le plus naturel des corbeaux aux cassicans, barita.  Une seule espèce appartient à ce sous-genre, c'est le coracias strepera, Lath.  ...  Habite la Nouvelle-Hollande et l'île Norfolk." (Lesson 1831); "Strepera Lesson, 1830 or 1831, Traité Orn., livr. 5, p. 329. Type, by tautonymy, Coracias strepera Latham = Corvus graculinus J. White." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 170).
Synon. Coronica, Neostrepera.

strepera / streperus
Late L. streperus  noisy  < L. strepere  to make a loud noise.
● "61. ANAS.  ...  strepera.  18. A. macula alarum rufa nigra alba. Fn. svec. 101.  Anas strepera. Gesn. av. 121.  Anas platyrhynchos, rostro nigro & plano. Aldr. orn. l. 19. c. 32. Raj. av. 145.  The godwall or gray. Will. orn. 287. t. 72.  Habitat in Europæ aquis dulcibus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Mareca).
● "GENUS XIV.  CORACIAS.   ...   21. strepera.  ...  HABITAT in insula Norfolk maris pacifici; numerosissima; magnitudine vix C. Corone cedens.—19 pollices longa.—Stolida et incauta avis, noctu pervigilans; quo tempore inquieta et strepera, aliis somnum abrumpit." (Latham 1790); the “Noisy Roller” of Latham 1802 (syn. Strepera graculina).

fuliginosa / fuliginosum / fuliginosus
Late L. fuliginosus  sooty, covered with soot  < L. fuligo, fuliginis  soot.
● ex “Soui-manga carmelite” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Chalcomitra).
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 28 (Dendrocincla).
● ex “Sooty Petrel” of Latham 1785 (Nesofregetta).
● ex “Sooty or Brown Albatros” of Latham 1785 (syn. Phoebetria palpebrata).
● ex “Hirondelle de Mer à grande envergure” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Sooty Tern”, “Simple Tern, var. A” and “Dusky Tern” of Latham 1785 (syn. Onychoprion fuscatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche brun de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 574, fig. 1, and “Brown Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.; has been linked with Cnemotriccus fuscatus and with Contopus cinereus).

SUBSPECIES

Black Currawong (fuliginosa)
SCI Name: Strepera fuliginosa fuliginosa
fuliginosa / fuliginosum / fuliginosus
Late L. fuliginosus  sooty, covered with soot  < L. fuligo, fuliginis  soot.
● ex “Soui-manga carmelite” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Chalcomitra).
● ex “Grimpar Enfumé” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 28 (Dendrocincla).
● ex “Sooty Petrel” of Latham 1785 (Nesofregetta).
● ex “Sooty or Brown Albatros” of Latham 1785 (syn. Phoebetria palpebrata).
● ex “Hirondelle de Mer à grande envergure” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Sooty Tern”, “Simple Tern, var. A” and “Dusky Tern” of Latham 1785 (syn. Onychoprion fuscatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche brun de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 574, fig. 1, and “Brown Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.; has been linked with Cnemotriccus fuscatus and with Contopus cinereus).

Black Currawong (parvior)
SCI Name: Strepera fuliginosa parvior
parvior
Late L. parvior, parvioris  smaller, less  < comp. L. parvus  small.

Black Currawong (colei)
SCI Name: Strepera fuliginosa colei
colei
Charles Frederick Cole (1875-1959) Australian civil servant, collector, horticulturalist (syn. Cracticus torquatus leucopterus, syn. Platycercus eximius, subsp. Strepera fuliginosa).