James's Flamingo

SCI Name:  Phoenicoparrus jamesi
Protonym:  Phoenicopterus jamesi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 no.26 p.399,400 pl.36 fig.3
Taxonomy:  Phoenicopteriformes / Phoenicopteridae / Phoenicoparrus
Taxonomy Code:  jamfla1
Type Locality:  Sitani, at foot of Isluga volcano, Tarapaca, Chile.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1886
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PHOENICOPARRUS
(Phoenicopteridae; Ϯ Andean Flamingo P. andinus) Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos  crimson, red; L. parrus or parra  unknown bird of omen (variously identified, e.g. nightjar, owl, woodpecker, lapwing, wheatear); "Si le Phœnicoptère a trois doigts (Ph. andinus, Philippi, ex Am. m. Chili, in Caban. Journ.) existe véritablement, et qu'il n'y ait pas de méprise quant à ses pieds tridactyles, ce troisième Phœnicoptère américain, si différent de ruber, L. (americanus, Orbigny ex Seba) et de ignipalliatus, Geoff. (chilensis? Molina), devra incontestablement former un second genre dans cette singulière famille: nous proposons pour lui le nom de Phœnicoparrus." (Bonaparte 1856).
Var. Phaenicoparrus, Phoenicoparra.
Synon. Lipocentrus.

jamesi
● Hubert William James (1884-1974) English ornithologist, farmer in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1974, Keeper of Oology, Queen Victoria Mus., Salisbury 1965 (subsp. Cisticola subruficapilla).
● Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941) US patron of sciences (subsp. Melozone fusca).
● Harry Crowe James (1868-1932) US banker, businessman, Trustee of Denver Mus., sportsman (subsp. Pedioecetes phasianellus).
● Henry Berkeley James (1846-1892) British businessman in Chile, ornithologist (Phoenicoparrus).
● Frank Linsly James (1851-1890) British explorer in the Sudan, Somaliland, India and Mexico (Tchagra).