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SCI Name:  Sarcops calvus
Protonym:  Gracula calva Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.164
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Sarcops
Taxonomy Code:  coleto1
Type Locality:  Philippine Islands [= Luzon].
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SARCOPS
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Coleto S. calvus) Gr. σαρξ sarx, σαρκος sarkos  flesh; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, complexion; "conspicuous pink bare skin covers much of the face" (Feare & Craig 1998); "SARCOPS, Walden.  129.*SARCOPS CALVUS.   Merula calva, Brisson, Orn. iip. 280, no. 36, "Philippines."  Gracula calva, Linn. S. N. i. p. 164, no. 2 (1766), ex Brisson; v. Kittlitz, Kupft. p. 9, pl. xiii. f. 2.  Le Goulin, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 420.  Le Goulin gris, Cuv. R. A. i. p. 381 (1829)  Gymnops¹ calvus (Gm.), Cuv., l.c.  Gymnops griseus, Cuv., ap. Meyen, Nov. Acta Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xvi. suppl. prim. p. 78.  Gymnops tricolor (L. S. Müller), ap. G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6275, nec L. S. Müller.   ...   ¹Previously employed by Spix (Av. Brasil. i. p. 11, 1824) for Falco aterrimus, Temm. Pl. Col. pl. 37 = Daptrius ater, Vieillot (Analyse, p. 69A)." (Walden 1875); "Sarcops Walden, 1877 [sic], Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 9, p. 205. Type, by monotypy, Gracula calvus Linnaeus." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 117); .
Synon. Cepharcus, Gymnops.

calvus
L. calvus  bald.
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867 (Geronticus).
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867, “Courlis à tête nue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bald Ibis” of Latham 1785 (syn. Geronticus calvus).
● ex “Choucas chauve de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 521, and “Bald Crow” of Latham 1781 (syn. Perissocephalus tricolor).
● ex “Vautour royal de Pondicherry” of Sonnerat 1782 (Sarcogyps).
● ex “Merle chauve des Philippines” of Brisson 1760 (Sarcops).

SUBSPECIES

Coleto (calvus)
SCI Name: Sarcops calvus calvus
calvus
L. calvus  bald.
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867 (Geronticus).
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867, “Courlis à tête nue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bald Ibis” of Latham 1785 (syn. Geronticus calvus).
● ex “Choucas chauve de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 521, and “Bald Crow” of Latham 1781 (syn. Perissocephalus tricolor).
● ex “Vautour royal de Pondicherry” of Sonnerat 1782 (Sarcogyps).
● ex “Merle chauve des Philippines” of Brisson 1760 (Sarcops).

Coleto (melanonotus)
SCI Name: Sarcops calvus melanonotus
melanonota / melanonotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.
● ex “Pico de punzon azul y canala” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 104 (Pipraeidea).

Coleto (lowii)
SCI Name: Sarcops calvus lowii
lowi / lowii
● Sir Hugh Low (1824-1905) British colonial administrator, naturalist, Colonial Secretary of Labuan 1848-1850, Resident of Perak, Malaya 1877-1889 (subsp. Aerodramus maximus, syn. Megapodius cumingii, subsp. Sarcops calvus).
● Capt. Dr Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870-1948) British Army, surgeon, ornithologist at BMNH 1919-1935 (subsp. Coereba flaveola).
● Surgeon-Maj. Dr George Carmichael Low (1872-1952) Scottish parasitologist, co-founder (1907) of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, ornithologist (Jan van der Brugge in litt.) (syn. Jacana spinosa gymnostoma).