Pink-breasted Lark / Calendulauda poecilosterna

Pink-breasted Lark / Calendulauda poecilosterna

Pink-breasted Lark

SCI Name:  Calendulauda poecilosterna
Protonym:  Alauda poecilosterna Orn.Centralbl. 4 p.155 cdP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae /
Taxonomy Code:  piblar3
Type Locality:  Kibaradja [Tana River, Kenya Colony].
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Publish Year:  1879
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DEFINITIONS

CALENDULAUDA
(Alaudidae; Karoo Lark C. albescens) Portmanteau of genera Calendula Swainson, 1837, lark, and Alauda, Linnaeus, 1758, lark; "Mr. G. R. Gray assigns to MEGALOPHONUS certain true Larks (possessing the nareal tuft) of S. Africa, which Dr. A. Smith classed as ALAUDÆ; but these constitute a peculiar form, CALENDULAUDA, nobis; ex. ALAUDA ALBESCENS, Lafr. (v. A. codea, A. Smith),— A. LAGEPA, A. Smith, &c." (Blyth 1855); "Calendulauda Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, p. 258, 1855.  Type by original designation, Alauda albescens Lafr. = Certhilauda nivosa Swains." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 316); "CALENDULAUDA Blyth, 1855  F — Alauda albescens Lafresnaye, 1839; type by monotypy." (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 437). The Karoo Lark and its allies are a challenging group that have been linked to various other taxa in the past.
Synon. Pseudammomanes, Sabota.

poecilosterna / poecilosternus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  pied, spotted, variegated; στερνον sternon  breast.