Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo / Surniculus lugubris
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Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cuculus lugubris Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.179
Taxonomy: Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Surniculus
Taxonomy Code: asidrc3
Type Locality: Java.
Author: Horsfield
Publish Year: 1821
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SURNICULUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo S. lugubris) Portmanteau of genera Surnia Duméril, 1805, owl (i.e. wicked, evil) and Cuculus Linnaeus, 1758, cuckoo (cf. French sournois deceitful; Coucou cuckoo); "It has three distinct notes, which it repeats in great regularity with a loud but not unpleasant voice, although by many natives it is considered as ominous of evil" (Horsfield 1824); "5.e Race. Les SURNICOUS; Surniculus. Bec mince, comprimé, faible; tarses très-courts, grêles, emplumés jusqu'au-dessous du genou; queue longue, très-étagée; ailes médiocres et pointues; narines arrondies, ouvertes, basales. 12. COUCOU LUGUBRE; Cuculus lugubris, Horsf. ... L'Awon-awon des Javanais. ... 13. COUCOU A TÊTE GRISE; Cuculus flavus, Gm. ... 14. COUCOU A VENTRE RAYÉ; Cuculus lineatus." (Lesson 1830); "Surniculus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 2, 1830, p. 151. Type, by subsequent designation, Cuculus lugubris Horsfield. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 97.)" (Peters 1940, IV, 35).
Synon. Cacangelus, Pseudornis.
lugubris
L. lugubris mournful, plaintive < lugere to mourn.
● ex “Merle brun du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 563, fig. 1 (unident.).
SUBSPECIES
Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (barussarum)
SCI Name: Surniculus lugubris barussarum
barussa / barussana / barussarum / barussensis
Barussan Is., off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (brachyurus)
SCI Name: Surniculus lugubris brachyurus
brachyurus
Gr. βραχυς brakhus short; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (lugubris)
SCI Name: Surniculus lugubris lugubris
lugubris
L. lugubris mournful, plaintive < lugere to mourn.
● ex “Merle brun du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 563, fig. 1 (unident.).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
