Dusky Woodswallow

SCI Name:  Artamus cyanopterus
Protonym:  L[oxia] cyanoptera Suppl.ind.orn. p.xlvi
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Artamus
Taxonomy Code:  duswoo1
Type Locality:  New Holland = Sydney, New South Wales.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARTAMUS
(Artamidae; Ϯ White-breasted Woodswallow A. leucoryn) Gr. αρταμος artamos  butcher, murderer; the woodswallows were formerly known as swallow-shrikes, combining the characters of swallows and shrikes or butcherbirds (see Enneoctonus and Lanius); "129. LANGRAIEN, Artamus.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre à la base, très-lisse, longicône, un peu robuste, convexe en dessus, un peu comprimé latéralement vers la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu fléchie en arc, échancrée vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes sans penne bâtarde, alongées; la première remige la plus longue.   Esp. Langraien, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Artamus Vieillot, 1816 (April), Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, Langraien (Buffon) = Lanius leucorhynchus Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 161).
Var. Artamusete.
Synon. Angroyan, Austrartamus, Campbellornis, Cataphania, Langrayen, Leptopteryx, Micrartamus, Ocypterus, Pseudartamus.

cyanopterus
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros  blue-winged, dark-winged  < κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Petite perruche du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 455, fig. 1, and “Perruche aux ailes bleues” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Forpus passerinus).

Cyanopterus
(Anatidae; syn. Spatula † Cinnamon Teal S. cyanoptera) Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros  blue-winged  < κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing; "GENUS X.  CYANOPTERUS.   EXT. CHAR.  Pedes digitis posterioribus mediocribus, et non lobatis.  Rostrum latius ad apicem quam ad basin.  Lamellæ paululum elongatæ.  Nares rotundatæ, magnæ.  Cauda vix elongata.  Alæ ptilis cæruleis.   ANAT. CHAR.  Trachea tubula infra glotidem expandente, tunc contracta, rursusque expandente, et contracta supra larynginem inferiorem.  Larynx inferior bulbo magno osseo lateribus et antice tendente.   ...   CYANOPTERUS nobis.  TYPE. Cyanopterus Rafflesii.   The above genus consists of that group commonly called the blue-winged teal; nor do we know one instance of a bird agreeing with the character which has not bright azure blue wings, except the Garganey, which has, however, dull slate-coloured ones." (Eyton 1838); "Gen. CYANOPTERUS, Eyton.    412. CYANOPTERUS CIRCIA, Eyton. (Anas querquedula, L.) Gould, pl. 364.     378. CYANOPTERUS DISCORS, Eyton. (Anas discors, L.) Aud. pl. 313." (Bonaparte 1838); "Cyanopterus Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List Eur. & Amer. Birds, p. 57, April 14th, 1838.  Type (by subsequent designation, Mathews, Birds Austr., Introd. vol. viii, p. xiv (pt. 5), Dec. 15th, 1920): Cyanopterus circia = A. querquedula Linné." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 218); "Cyanopterus (not of Haliday, 1835) Eyton, Monog. Anat., p. 38, 1838—type, by orig. desig., Anas rafflesii King = Anas cyanoptera Vieillot." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 333).

SUBSPECIES

Dusky Woodswallow (cyanopterus)
SCI Name: Artamus cyanopterus cyanopterus
cyanopterus
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros  blue-winged, dark-winged  < κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Petite perruche du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 455, fig. 1, and “Perruche aux ailes bleues” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Forpus passerinus).

Dusky Woodswallow (perthi)
SCI Name: Artamus cyanopterus perthi
perthi
Perth, Western Australia.