Violet Cuckoo

SCI Name:  Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus
Protonym:  Cuculus xanthorhynchus Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.179
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Chrysococcyx
Taxonomy Code:  viocuc1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOCOCCYX
(Cuculidae; † African Emerald Cuckoo C. cupreus) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; κοκκυξ kokkux, κοκκυγος kokkugos  cuckoo; "XXVIII. Fam. Cuculidae   ...   Chrysococcyx: Cuculus cupreus Lath. u. a." (Boie 1826); "Chrysococcyx Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977.  Type, by monotypy, Cuculus cupreus Latham = Cuculus cupreus Shaw." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 29).
Synon. Adamatornis, Adetococcyx, Lamprococcyx, Lampromorpha, Metallococcyx.

xanthorhynchus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

Xanthorhynchus
(syn. Tockus Ϯ Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill T. leucomelas) Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "Xanthorhynchus gen. nov., type Buceros leucomelas Licht.: bill very long, conspicuously and evenly arching, normally not toothed, though sometimes slightly chipped; length of the culmen about two and a half times the height at the nostrils; casque forming a high ridge, evenly arching with the bill, from which it is marked off by a shallow groove extending to a point not far from the tip; wing and tail of about the same length; secondaries as long as the primaries." (A. Roberts 1922).

SUBSPECIES

Violet Cuckoo (xanthorhynchus)
SCI Name: Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus xanthorhynchus
xanthorhynchus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

Violet Cuckoo (amethystinus)
SCI Name: Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus amethystinus
amethystina / amethystinus
L. amethystinus  amethyst-coloured, amethystine  < amethystus  amethyst  < Gr. αμεθυστος amethustos  amethyst.
● ex “Petit oiseau-mouche à queue fourchue de Cayenne”” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 672, fig. 1, and “Améthiste” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Calliphlox).
● ex “Petit oiseau-mouche à queue fourchue de Cayenne”” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 672, fig. 1, “Améthiste” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Amethystine Hummingbird” of Latham 1782 (syn. Calliphlox amethystina).
● ex “Sucrier Velours” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 294 (Chalcomitra).