Karoo Chat

SCI Name:  Emarginata schlegelii
Protonym:  Erithacus schlegelii Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 12 p.213
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Emarginata
Taxonomy Code:  karcha1
Type Locality:  Damaraland.
Author:  Wahlberg
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EMARGINATA
(Muscicapidae; † Sickle-winged Chat E. sinuata) L. emarginatus  emarginated  < emarginare  to provide with a margin; "Sickle-winged Chat  ...  Tip of P9 greatly attenuated, in some specimens forming sickle 1 mm wide and 10 mm long" (Keith et al. 1992); "SAXICOLIDÆ.  Genus I. EMARGINATA.  Emarginata, gen. nov. . . . .Type. E. sinuata." (Shelley 1896); "Emarginata Shelley, Bds. Afr. i, p.89, 1896.  Type by original designation, Luscinia sinuata Sund." (W. Sclater, 1839, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 459).  Sharpe 1903, remarked that Emarginata was an adjective, and could not be employed in a generic sense.  Such conservatism led to a proliferation of replacement names during the nineteenth century by authors like Illiger, Cabanis, and Sharpe.
Synon. Karrucincla, Phoenicuroides, Poliocichla, Psammocincla.

emarginata
L. emarginatus  emarginated  < emarginare  to provide with a margin  < margo, marginis  border, edge.

schlegelii
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Antigone canadensis, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus, Emarginata, syn. Eos rubra, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, syn. Halcyon coromanda, Pachycephala, Peliperdix, syn. Tanysiptera galatea riedelii, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus) (see schlegeli).

SUBSPECIES

Karoo Chat (benguellensis)
SCI Name: Emarginata schlegelii benguellensis
benguelae / benguelensis / benguellensis
Benguella (= Benguela), Angola.

Karoo Chat (schlegelii)
SCI Name: Emarginata schlegelii schlegelii
schlegelii
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Antigone canadensis, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus, Emarginata, syn. Eos rubra, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, syn. Halcyon coromanda, Pachycephala, Peliperdix, syn. Tanysiptera galatea riedelii, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus) (see schlegeli).

Karoo Chat (namaquensis)
SCI Name: Emarginata schlegelii namaquensis
namaqua / namaquensis / namaquus
Namaqualand, Namibia.
● ex “Namaqua Grous” of Latham 1783 (Pterocles).

Karoo Chat (pollux)
SCI Name: Emarginata schlegelii pollux
pollux
Roman myth. Pollux, famous pugilist, brother of Castor (subsp. Emarginata schlegelii) (see Karrucincla and castor ●).