Black Cuckoo

SCI Name:  Cuculus clamosus
Protonym:  Cuculus clamosus Suppl.ind.orn. p.xxx
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Cuculus
Taxonomy Code:  blacuc1
Type Locality:  Cape of Good Hope = Cradock Division, Cape Province, fide Grant and Mackworth-Praed, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 56, 1936, p. 116.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CUCULUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Common Cuckoo C. canorus) L. cuculus  cuckoo. "52. CUCULUS.  Rostrum teretiusculum.  Nares margine prominulæ.  Lingua sagittata, plana, integra." (Linnaeus 1758); "Cuculus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 110. Type, by tautonymy, Cuculus canorus Linné (Cuculus, prebinomial specific name in synonymy.)" (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 14). Linnaeus's Cuculus comprised eight species (C. canorus, C. Persa, C. Vetula, C. glandarius, C. scolopaceus, C. niger, C. americanus, C. auratus). Together with the arrival of the Barn Swallow, the distinctive calls of the Common Cuckoo are traditionally and widely regarded as the harbingers of springtime throughout Europe.   
Var. Cucculus, Cuculis, Cuculuc.   
Synon. Coccyx, Edolius, Melanococcyx, Multivoculus, Nicoclarius, Notococcyx, Surniculoides, Versiculus.

clamosus
L. clamosus  clamorous, noisy  < clamare  to shout.
● ex “Importun” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 2 (syn. Andropadus importunus).
● ex “Coucou criard” of Sonnerat 1782 (Cuculus).
● ex “Coucou criard” of Levaillant 1806, pll. 204-205 (syn. Cuculus clamosus).
● ex “Criard Falcon” of Latham 1781 (syn. Haliaeetus vociferus).

SUBSPECIES

Black Cuckoo (Rufous-throated)
SCI Name: Cuculus clamosus gabonensis
gabonense / gabonensis / gabonica / gabonicus / gaboonensis
Gaboon / Gabon.

Black Cuckoo (Black)
SCI Name: Cuculus clamosus clamosus
clamosus
L. clamosus  clamorous, noisy  < clamare  to shout.
● ex “Importun” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 2 (syn. Andropadus importunus).
● ex “Coucou criard” of Sonnerat 1782 (Cuculus).
● ex “Coucou criard” of Levaillant 1806, pll. 204-205 (syn. Cuculus clamosus).
● ex “Criard Falcon” of Latham 1781 (syn. Haliaeetus vociferus).