Blue Crane

SCI Name:  Anthropoides paradiseus
Protonym:  Ardea paradisea Cat.Rer.nat.rar. p.28,29 no.283
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Gruidae / Anthropoides
Taxonomy Code:  blucra2
Type Locality:  Inner South Africa.
Author:  Lichtenstein, AAH
Publish Year:  1793
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

ANTHROPOIDES
(Gruidae; Ϯ Demoiselle Crane A. virgo) Gr. ανθρωπος anthrōpos  woman; -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; “This Bird is called Demoiselles by reason of certain ways of acting that it has, wherein it seems to imitate the Gestures of a Woman who affects a Grace in her Walking, Obeisances, and Dancing. This resemblance must be thought to have some reasonable Ground, seeing that for above two thousand Years the Authors who have treated of this Bird have designed it by this Particularity of the Imitation of the Gestures and Behaviour of Men. Aristotle gives to it the Name of Actor or Comedian” (Albin 1738); "230. ANTHROPOÏDE, Anthropoïdes.  Ardea, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec à peine plus long que la tête, entier, sillonné en dessus. — Tête totalement emplumée ou nue seulement sur les tempes.  2 sections.  Esp. Demoiselle. — Oiseau royal, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); “On compare sa marche, ses postures et ses gestes aux danses des Bohémiennes.” (Vieillot 1825); "Anthropoïdes Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 59. Type, by monotypy, Demoiselle of Buffon = Ardea virgo Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 153).  
Var. Antropoides.
Synon. Geranarchus, Geranus, Numidica, Philorchemon, Scops, Tetrapteryx.

paradisea / paradiseus / paradisi
Med. L. paradiseus  of paradise, paradisean, ethereal  < Late L. paradisus  paradise  < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos  paradise, garden, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings)  < Old Persian pairi-daēza  walled garden.
● "44. PSITTACUS.  ...  paradisi.  28. P. brachyurus luteus, angulo abdominis rectricibusque basi rubris.  Psittacus paradisi ex cuba. Catesb. car. I. p. 10. t. 10.  Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (nom. dub.: ?syn. Amazona leucocephalus (leucistic)).
● ex “Coucou verd hupé de Siam” of Brisson 1760 (Dicrurus).
● ex “Tangara du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 127, fig. 2 (subsp. Tangara chilensis).
● "48. CORVUS.  ...  paradisi.  11. C. albo nigroque varius, cauda cuneiformi, remigibus intermediis longissimis, capite nigro cristato:  Manucodiota cristata ex albo nigroque variata. Raj. av. 195. t. 2. f. 13.  Avis paradisi. Seb. mus. I. p. 85. t. 52. f. 3. & t. 30. f. 5.  Pica orientalis, cauda duabus pennis longissimis. Edw. av. 113. t. 113.  Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (Terpsiphone).
● "58. UPUPA.  ...  paradisea.  2. U. rectricibus duabus longissimis.  Avis paradisiaca Manucodiata cristata orientalis. Seb. mus. I. p. 40. t. 30. f. 5.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (?syn. Terpsiphone paradisi).
● "97. EMBERIZA.  ...  paradisæa.  12. E. fusca, pectore rubro, rectricibus duabus longioribus acuminatis, intermediis duabus longissimis.  Passer indicus. Aldr. orn. l. 15. c. 23. Will. orn. 184. t. 45.  Passer psittacus indicus, cauda longa. Pet. gaz. . . t. 55. f. 1.  Passer pectore rubro, cauda longissima. Edw. av. 86. t. 86.  Habitat in Africa.  Nigra est sed cervice & pectore coccineo. Deponit quotannis longas caudæ pennas, uti Pavo." (Linnaeus 1758) (Vidua).
● "60. TROCHILUS.  ...  paradiseus.  1. T. curvirostris ruber, alis cæruleis, capite cristato, rectricibus duabus longissimis.  Mellivora avis cristata cum duobus pennis longis in cauda. Seb. mus. I. p. 97. t. 61. f. 4.  Habitat in Mexico." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.; Bonaparte 1850, hesitantly linked this name with Topaza pella).