Australian Bustard

SCI Name:  Ardeotis australis
Protonym:  Otis Australis Anim.Kingd.[Griffith] 8 p.305
Taxonomy:  Otidiformes / Otididae / Ardeotis
Taxonomy Code:  ausbus1
Type Locality:  New South Wales.
Author:  Gray, JE
Publish Year:  1829
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARDEOTIS
(Otididae; † Arabian Bustard A. arabs) Portmanteau of genera Ardea Linnaeus, 1758, heron, and Otis Linnaeus, 1758, bustard; "SINOPSIS DES GENRES DE LA FAMILLE DES OTIDÉS.  ...  Bec long, droit, seulement un peu recourbé vers la pointe . . . . . . ARDÉOTIDE.  Ardeotis.   ...   GENRE  ARDÉOTIDE (Ardeotis, d'Is. Geoffroy).   Ce Genre, dont le nom rappelle le Héron (Ardea) et l'Outarde (Otis), est caractérisé par un bec long, droit, seulement un peu recourbé vers la pointe.     L' ARDÉOTIDE  LOHONG (Ardeotis Arabs, d'Is. Geoffroy; Otis Arabs, de Gmelin; Eupodotis Arabs, de Lesson) habite l'Afrique méridionale et l'Asie" (Le Maout 1853); "Ardeotis Le Maout, 1853, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux, pp. 339, 340.  Type, by monotypy, Otis arabs Gmelin (i.e. Linnaeus), 1758." (JAJ 2020).
Synon. Austrotis, Choriotis.

australe / australis
L. australis  southern  < auster, austri  south.
● Tierra del Fuego; ex “Thorn-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Aphrastura spinicauda).
● Cayenne; ex “Southern Sandpiper” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Calidris canutus).
● Erroneous TL "Friendly Islands" (= Tasmania); ex "South-Sea Raven" of Latham 1781 (syn. Corvus coronoides).
● Erroneous TL. New Guinea (= Luzon, Philippines); ex “Manikor de la Nouvelle Guinée” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Dicaeum).
● Australia; ex “New Holland Snipe” of Latham 1801 (syn. Gallinago hardwickii).
● Australia; ex “Pacific Paroquet (var.)” of Phillip 1789 (syn. Glossopsitta concinna).
● Australia; ex “New Holland Pelican” of Latham 1824 (syn. Pelecanus conspicillatus).
● Australia; ex “Cold-river Goatsucker” of Latham 1823 (syn. Podargus strigoides).
● Australia; ex “New Holland Quail” of Latham 1802 (Synoicus).
● Tasmania; ex Brown MS (syn. Lathamus discolor).
● Dusky Sound, New Zealand (syn. Nestor meridionalis).
● Staten I., off Tierra del Fuego (= Isla de los Estados, Argentina); ex “Statenland Eagle” of Latham 1781 (Phalcoboenus).
● Christmas I.; ex "Southern Tern" of Latham 1785 (syn. Procelsterna caerulea) (so identified by Stresemann 1950).
● Kerguelen I.; ex “Southern Tern” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Sterna vittata).
● Madagascar; ex “Palumbus viridis Madagascariensis” of Brisson 1760 (Treron).
● Erroneous TL. Sandwich Is. (= Samoa); ex “Blue-crested Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (Vini).
● Tierra del Fuego; ex “Rusty-collared Finch” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Zonotrichia capensis).