Blanford's Lark

SCI Name:  Calandrella blanfordi
Protonym:  Tephrocorys blanfordi BirdsAfr. 3 p.128 pl.21 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Calandrella
Taxonomy Code:  blalar2
Type Locality:  Senafe, Tigre district, Ethiopia.
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1902
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CALANDRELLA
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Greater Short-toed Lark C. brachydactyla) Dim. <  Gr. καλανδρος kalandros  Calandra Lark; "11. Alauda brachydactyla.   ...   11. Kalandrelle. Calandrella. (Al. brachydactyla.)   Entw[ickelung]. Alle Formen werden etwas größer, das Gefieder einfacher und der Sporn der Hinterzehe gerade, wie beim Wiedehopf.   Char[akter]. Kalandarlerchen mit dünnem Schnabel.   Leb[ensart]. Sie gleichen hierin den Lerchen, besonders aber den Kalandarlerchen." (Kaup 1829); "Calandrella Kaup, 1829, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europäischen Thierw., p. 39. Type, by monotypy, Al. brachydactyla = Alauda brachydactyla Leisler." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 44).
Var. Calandralla.
Synon. Calandritis, Coryphidea, Tephrocorys.

calandrella
Dim. < Italian name Calandrino for the Greater Short-toed Lark  <  French Calandrelle  <  Gr. καλανδρος kalandros  Calandra Lark (syn. Calandrella brachydactyla).

blanfordi / blanfordii
Dr William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905) English geologist, zoologist, collector in Ethiopia, Persia and India (syn. Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Calandrella, syn. Carduelis carduelis brevirostris, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, syn. Cisticola marginatus, syn. Leiopicus mahrattensis, subsp. Parus major, subsp. Prinia inornata, syn. Prunella modularis obscura, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, Pycnonotus, Pyrgilauda, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, subsp. Sylvia leucomelaena, syn. Tchagra senegalus, subsp. Turnix tanki).

SUBSPECIES

Blanford's Lark (Blanford's)
SCI Name: Calandrella blanfordi blanfordi
blanfordi / blanfordii
Dr William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905) English geologist, zoologist, collector in Ethiopia, Persia and India (syn. Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Calandrella, syn. Carduelis carduelis brevirostris, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, syn. Cisticola marginatus, syn. Leiopicus mahrattensis, subsp. Parus major, subsp. Prinia inornata, syn. Prunella modularis obscura, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, Pycnonotus, Pyrgilauda, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, subsp. Sylvia leucomelaena, syn. Tchagra senegalus, subsp. Turnix tanki).

Blanford's Lark (Erlanger's)
SCI Name: Calandrella blanfordi erlangeri
erlangeri
Victor Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Erlanger (called Carlo von Erlanger) (1872-1904) German naturalist, collector in tropical Africa 1900-1901 (subsp. Agricola pallidus, Batis, syn. Bostrychia hagedash brevirostris, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Calandrella blanfordi, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, syn. Cinnyris erythrocercus, subsp. Cinnyris nectarinioides, syn. Cisticola lugubris, subsp. Colius striatus, syn. Coturnix coturnix africana, syn. Crithagra reichardi striatipectus, syn. Eremomela flavicrissalis, syn. Estrilda astrild peasei, subsp. Eupodotis senegalensis, subsp. Eurocephalus ruppelli, subsp. Falco biarmicus, subsp. Galerida theklae, subsp. Glareola pratincola, subsp. Gyps rueppelli, syn. Halcyon albiventris orientalis, syn. Indicator minor teitensis, syn. Laniarius nigerrimus, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Neophedina cincta, syn. Nilaus afer minor, syn. Oenanthe melanura neumanni, syn. Otus scops, syn. Phylloscopus sibilatrix, syn. Pinarochroa sordida, syn. Plocepasser mahali propinquatus, subsp. Prinia somalica, subsp. Pterocles exustus, syn. Ptilopsis granti, subsp. Salpornis salvadori, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, syn. Sylvietta isabellina, syn. Tchagra senegalus habessinicus, syn. Turtur chalcospilos, syn. Tychaedon quadrivirgata, subsp. Tyto alba, syn. Urorhipis rufifrons smithi, syn. Zosterops poliogastrus).