Black-tailed Trainbearer

SCI Name:  Lesbia victoriae
Protonym:  Trochilus Victoriae Ann.Sci.Phys.Nat.Agric.Ind. 9 p.312 pl.11
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lesbia
Taxonomy Code:  blttra1
Type Locality:  Bourcier, Rev. Zool., Nov., 1846, p. 315, pi. 4.
Author:  Bourcier & Mulsant
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LESBIA
(Trochilidae; † Green-tailed Trainbearer L. nuna) Gr. Λεσβιας Lesbias  woman of Lesbos; "XIe RACE. — LES SAPHOS. (Lesbia, Less.)   Bec médiocre, presque droit; queue à rectrices très étagées, larges, profondément fourchues.   ESP. 39. — OISEAU-MOUCHE SAPHO. (Ornismya Sapho, Less.)  ...  Trochilus sparganurus, Shaw, general Zoology, t. VIII, p. 1.   ...   ESP. 40. — OISEAU-MOUCHE NOUNA-KOALI. (Ornismya Nuna, Less.)  ...  Cynanthus bifurcatus, Sw., Phil. mag., 1827, n. 6, p. 441, esp. 97.  ...   ESP. 41. — OISEAU-MOUCHE DE KING. (Ornismya Kingii, Less.)  ...  Trochilus forcipatus, Lath.; Edw. gl.; Vieill., Ois. dorés, t. 1." (Lesson 1833); "Lesbia Lesson, Les Trochilidées [1833], Index Gén., p. xvij.  Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya nuna Lesson. (Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 16, 1892, p. 146.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 114).
Synon. Agaclyta, Cynanthus, Psalidoprymna.
• (Trochilidae; syn. Sappho † Red-tailed Comet S. sparganurus) "34. LESBIA, Less. (Cometes, Gould.) —  130. sparganurus, Shaw. 1811. —  131. phaon, Gould, 1847. —  132. mocoa, Bourc. 1845. —  133. forficata, Edw. B. t. 33, 1763. —  134. glyceria, Gould, 1854." (Bonaparte 1854); "Lesbia Bonaparte, 1854, Rev. Mag. Zool., sér. 2, VI, p. 252.  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 141 (Appendix)), Trochilus sparganurus Shaw, 1812." (JAJ 2020).

lesbia / lesbias / lesbius
Gr. Λεσβιας Lesbias woman of Lesbos.
● ex “Mitilène de Provence” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 656, fig. 2, and “Lesbian Bunting” of Latham 1783.  Sharpe 1888, identifies these birds with Emberiza fucata, but neither the names nor d'Aubenton's plate accord with that bunting.  Hartert, 1910, Vögel paläarktisch. Fauna, I, p. 188, synonymises Emberiza lesbia Gmelin, 1788, with Emberiza rustica Pallas, 1776 (syn. Emberiza rustica).

victoria / victoriae
● Victoria, Australia (named after Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain) (syn. Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, syn. Alcedo azurea, subsp. Climacteris picumnus, syn. Colluricincla harmonica, syn. Coracina papuensis robusta, syn. Dasyornis brachypterus, syn. Drymodes brunneopygia, syn. Eurostopodus mystacalis, syn. Halobaena caerulea, syn. Ixobrychus minutus novaezelandiae, syn. Malurus splendens melanotus, subsp. Menura novaehollandiae, syn. Microeca fascinans, syn. Ninox strenua, syn. Oxyura australis, syn. Platycercus elegans, syn. Podargus strigoides, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, subsp. Synoicus chinensis).
● Mt. Victoria (= Nat Ma Taung), Chin Hills, Burma (subsp. Aethopyga nipalensis, syn. Certhia manipurensis, subsp. Pellorneum ruficeps, subsp. Pyrrhula nipalensis, Sitta, syn. Siva strigula yunnanensis, subsp. Trochalopteron austeni).
● Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India (1819-1901; reigned 1837-1901) (syn. Ardea alba, Goura, Lophorina).
● Lake Victoria (= Victoria Nyanza), East Africa (syn. Cisticola chiniana fischeri, Ploceus).
● Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise Crown-Princess of Germany and Prussia (1840-1901), eldest child of Queen Victoria, and wife to Friedrich Wilhelm Crown-Prince of Germany and Prussia (Lamprolia).
● Marie Anne Victoire Mulsant née Jacquetton (1777-1854) mother of French ornithologist Martial Mulsant (Lesbia).
● Sierra La Victoria, southern Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Vireo gilvus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-tailed Trainbearer (victoriae)
SCI Name: Lesbia victoriae victoriae
victoria / victoriae
● Victoria, Australia (named after Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain) (syn. Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, syn. Alcedo azurea, subsp. Climacteris picumnus, syn. Colluricincla harmonica, syn. Coracina papuensis robusta, syn. Dasyornis brachypterus, syn. Drymodes brunneopygia, syn. Eurostopodus mystacalis, syn. Halobaena caerulea, syn. Ixobrychus minutus novaezelandiae, syn. Malurus splendens melanotus, subsp. Menura novaehollandiae, syn. Microeca fascinans, syn. Ninox strenua, syn. Oxyura australis, syn. Platycercus elegans, syn. Podargus strigoides, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, subsp. Synoicus chinensis).
● Mt. Victoria (= Nat Ma Taung), Chin Hills, Burma (subsp. Aethopyga nipalensis, syn. Certhia manipurensis, subsp. Pellorneum ruficeps, subsp. Pyrrhula nipalensis, Sitta, syn. Siva strigula yunnanensis, subsp. Trochalopteron austeni).
● Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India (1819-1901; reigned 1837-1901) (syn. Ardea alba, Goura, Lophorina).
● Lake Victoria (= Victoria Nyanza), East Africa (syn. Cisticola chiniana fischeri, Ploceus).
● Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise Crown-Princess of Germany and Prussia (1840-1901), eldest child of Queen Victoria, and wife to Friedrich Wilhelm Crown-Prince of Germany and Prussia (Lamprolia).
● Marie Anne Victoire Mulsant née Jacquetton (1777-1854) mother of French ornithologist Martial Mulsant (Lesbia).
● Sierra La Victoria, southern Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Vireo gilvus).

Black-tailed Trainbearer (juliae)
SCI Name: Lesbia victoriae juliae
juliae
● Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale (1846-1937) wife of British collector Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale (Arachnothera, Leptocoma).
● Julia Gräfin Branicka née Potocka (1854-1921) wife of Polish zoologist Władysław Michał Graf Branicki (subsp. Lesbia victoriae).
● Julie Heine née Ernst (1823-1878) wife of German ornithologist Ferdinand Heine (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Black-tailed Trainbearer (berlepschi)
SCI Name: Lesbia victoriae berlepschi
berlepschi
Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig Graf von Berlepsch (1850-1915) German ornithologist, collector specialising in the Neotropical avifauna (Aglaiocercus, Anthocephala, Asthenes, syn. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Ceratopipra erythrocephala, Chaetocercus, subsp. Chamaeza campanisona, subsp. Chlorostilbon lucidus (ex Chlorostilbon splendidus egregius von Berlepsch & Ihering, 1885), subsp. Colius striatus, subsp. Conopias trivirgatus, Cranioleuca, Crypturellus, Dacnis, syn. Dendrocolaptes picumnus validus, syn. Eremophila teleschowi, syn. Eriocnemis vestita, subsp. Hafferia zeledoni, syn. Heliodoxa jacula henryi, syn. Henicorhina leucophrys, Hylopezus, syn. Hylopezus macularius paraensis, Leptasthenura, subsp. Lesbia victoriae, subsp. Merganetta leucogenis, subsp. Mitrephanes phaeocercus, syn. Myiornis auricularis, subsp. Myrmoborus lugubris, subsp. Myrmotherula menetriesii, subsp. Ochthoeca fumicolor, Parotia, Patagioenas, subsp. Phaeochroa cuvierii, syn. Phaethornis syrmatophorus, subsp. Phimosus infuscatus, subsp. Polioptila dumicola, subsp. Pseudotriccus pelzelni, subsp. Pyrrhura melanura, Rhegmatorhina, syn. Sicalis olivascens, Sipia, subsp. Sphenopsis melanotis, syn. Tangara episcopus prysjonesi, subsp. Tangara nigroviridis, subsp. Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus, subsp. Tolmomyias sulphurescens, syn. Turdus albicollis spodiolaemus, subsp. Veniliornis mixtus, subsp. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus).