Long-billed Partridge

SCI Name:  Rhizothera longirostris
Protonym:  Perdix Longirostris Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 3 p.323,721.
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Rhizothera
Taxonomy Code:  lobpar3
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1815
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

RHIZOTHERA
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Long-billed Partridge R. longirostris) Gr. ῥιζα rhiza  root; -θηρας -thēras  -hunter  < θηραο thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr,  θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "RHIZOTHERA, G. R. Gray (1841).  Perdix, Temm. Tetrao, Raffl.  Francolinus, Steph.  R. longirostris, (Temm.) G. R. Gray.  T. curvirostris, Raffl. Ill. Ind. Zool. II, pl. f. 2." (G. Gray 1841); "Rhizothera G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., ed. 2, 1841, p. 79. Type, by monotypy, Perdix longirostris Temminck." (Peters 1934, II, 90).

longirostris
L. longus  long; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak. Var. Longirostra.
● ex “Long-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡Acrocephalus).
● ex “Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinée” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Aptenodytes patagonicus).
● ex “Troupiale” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 532 (syn. Icterus icterus).
● ex “Grimpar Nasican” of Levaillant 1807 (Nasica).
● ex “Râle à long bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 849, and “Long-billed Rail” of Latham 1785 (Rallus).

Longirostris
(syn. Limnodromus Ϯ Short-billed Dowitcher L. grisea) L. longus  long; -rostris 
-billed  < rostrum  beak; "Longirostris is, I think, preferable to Macroramfus [sic] for the genus Longbeak" (C. T. Wood 1836).    Var. Longirostra (Wood 1837: "Brown Longbeak. Macroramfe ponctue, - Roth M[acroramfe].  Longirostra grisea, Wood.  .. Longbeak, Longirostris, Wood").