Short-tailed Lark

SCI Name:  Spizocorys fremantlii
Protonym:  Calendula fremantlii Bull.Br.Orn.Club 6 p.46
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Spizocorys
Taxonomy Code:  shtlar1
Type Locality:  Goolis Mts., British Somaliland; type from Gedais. Col. pi., Ibis, 1898, pi. 9, fig. 2.
Author:  Lort Phillips
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPIZOCORYS
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Pink-billed Lark S. conirostris) Gr. σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; Mod. L. corys  lark  < Gr. κορυδος korudos  crested lark  < κορυς korus, κορυθος koruthos  helmet; "Spizocorys  n. g.  (Al. conirostris Sundev. Vet. Ak. Ö. 1850) rostro brevi, crassius conico, culmine vix arcuato; naribus setis obtectis; colore alaudino, maculato.  Nomen: ςπιζα, passer: κορυς, alauda. (Obs. κορις, coris = Cimex, quod probe observandum)" (Sundevall 1872).
Synon. Aethocorys, Botha, Dewetia, Pseudalaemon.

fremantlii
Maj. Guy Fremantle (b. 1867) British Army, collector in Somaliland 1897 (Spizocorys).

SUBSPECIES

Short-tailed Lark (fremantlii)
SCI Name: Spizocorys fremantlii fremantlii
fremantlii
Maj. Guy Fremantle (b. 1867) British Army, collector in Somaliland 1897 (Spizocorys).

Short-tailed Lark (megaensis)
SCI Name: Spizocorys fremantlii megaensis
megaensis
Mega, southern Ethiopia.

Short-tailed Lark (delamerei)
SCI Name: Spizocorys fremantlii delamerei
delamerei
Hugh Cholmondeley 3rd Baron Delamere (1870-1931) pioneer settler in East Africa Protectorate (= Kenya) 1903-1931 (subsp. Estrilda erythronotos, subsp. Euplectes progne, subsp. Spizocorys fremantlii).