White-crested Hornbill

SCI Name:  Horizocerus albocristatus
Protonym:  Buceros albo-cristatus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 3(1847) p.330
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Horizocerus
Taxonomy Code:  whchor3
Type Locality:  St. Paul''s River, Liberia.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1848
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

HORIZOCERUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Western Little Hornbill H. hartlaubi) Gr. ὁριζω horizō  to limit (i.e. short); κερας keras, κερως kerōs  horn; "HORIZOCERUS, ³ new genus.  Genus generi "Lophoceros" dicto affine, sed cauda valde cuneata, rostro prope recto, hujus cornu minimo, acute carinato, facile distinguendum.  Type.— Toccus hartlaubi Gould.   The strongly wedge-shaped tail, comparatively straight bill, with its very small, sharply keeled casque, to say nothing of conspicuous color differences, appear fully to justify the creation of a separate genus for the species commonly known as Lophoceros hartlaubi.   ...   ³ ὁριζω, limito; κερας, cornu." (Oberholser 1900); "Horizocerus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 22, 1899, p. 28.  Type, by original designation, Toccus hartlaubi Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 254).
Var. Orizocerus.
Synon. Ortholophus, Tropicranus.

albocristata / albocristatus
L. albus white; cristatus crested, plumed < crista crest, plume.

SUBSPECIES

White-crested Hornbill (White-cheeked)
SCI Name: Horizocerus albocristatus albocristatus/macrourus
HORIZOCERUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Western Little Hornbill H. hartlaubi) Gr. ὁριζω horizō  to limit (i.e. short); κερας keras, κερως kerōs  horn; "HORIZOCERUS, ³ new genus.  Genus generi "Lophoceros" dicto affine, sed cauda valde cuneata, rostro prope recto, hujus cornu minimo, acute carinato, facile distinguendum.  Type.— Toccus hartlaubi Gould.   The strongly wedge-shaped tail, comparatively straight bill, with its very small, sharply keeled casque, to say nothing of conspicuous color differences, appear fully to justify the creation of a separate genus for the species commonly known as Lophoceros hartlaubi.   ...   ³ ὁριζω, limito; κερας, cornu." (Oberholser 1900); "Horizocerus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 22, 1899, p. 28.  Type, by original designation, Toccus hartlaubi Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 254).
Var. Orizocerus.
Synon. Ortholophus, Tropicranus.

White-crested Hornbill (Dark-cheeked)
SCI Name: Horizocerus albocristatus cassini
cassini
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist, lithographer, co-owner of Bowen & Co. (Lithographers), Philadelphia (syn. Aethia pygmaea, subsp. Falco peregrinus, Horizocerus, Malimbus, subsp. Megascops guatemalae, syn. Molothrus bonariensis cabanisii, Muscicapa, Neafrapus, subsp. Poliocrania exsul, Psarocolius, syn. Todiramphus chloris vitiensis, Veniliornis) (see cassinii).