Desert Lark

SCI Name:  Ammomanes deserti
Protonym:  Alauda deserti Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.28
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Ammomanes
Taxonomy Code:  deslar1
Type Locality:  upper Egypt; Aswan designated as type locality by Meinertzhagen, 1951.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

AMMOMANES
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Bar-tailed Lark A. cinctura arenicolor) Gr. αμμος ammos  sand; -μανης -manēs  passionately fond of  < μανια mania  passion  < μαινομαι mainomai  to rage; "Gen. AMMOMANES nov. gen. *) Sandlerche.   668.  1. A. deserti Nob. —  Alauda deserti Licht. Doubl. p. 28. No. 286. —  Alauda isabellinus Temm. Pl. col. 244. fig. 2. —  Mirafra deserti Gray Gen. Birds No. 6.   ...   *) Von αμμος, Sand und μαινομαι, sehr lieben.  Die Gruppe nähert sich der Gattung Megalophonus, unterscheidet sich indess von derselben schon genügend durch die mit Federchen bedeckten Nasenlöcher, sowie durch kräftigere Bildung der Flügel und des Schwanzes; die Flügel sind länger, zugespitzter und der Schwanz ist durchaus nicht abgerundet, sondern gerade und in der Mitte mehr oder weniger ausgerandet. Gefieder sandfarbe. —  Typus der Gattung ist: Ammomanes pallida. — Alauda pallida (Ehrenb.) Licht. in Mus. Berol.  ...  Arabien." (Cabanis 1853); "Ammomanes Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Hein., Th. 1 (1850), p. 125. Type, by original designation, Ammomanes pallida Cabanis (ex Alauda pallida Licht. ms.) = Alauda arenicolor Sundevall." (Peters 1960, IX, p. 32).
Var. Annomanes.
Synon. Ammomanoides.

deserta / desertae / deserti
L. desertum  desert, waste, solitude  < deserere  to abandon.
● Desertas Is., Madeira (Pterodroma).
● Erroneous TL. South Africa (= New Zealand); "113. MUSCICAPA.  ...  deserti.  92.  ...  Muscicapa fuliginosa.  Sparrm. mus. Carls. 2. t. 47.   Habitat in Africae deserto inter fluvium Hevy et fontem Quammedacka intermedio" (J. Gmelin 1789) (syn. Rhipidura fuliginosa).

SUBSPECIES

Desert Lark (payni)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti payni
payni
Lt.-Col. William Arthur Payn (1871-1955) British Army, in Kenya 1920-1921 and Cyprus 1938 (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (algeriensis)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti algeriensis
algeriensis
Algeria (Arabic al-Jazā'ir the islands).

Desert Lark (mya)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti mya
mya
Wadi Mya, Erg Oriental, Sahara Desert, Algeria.

Desert Lark (geyri)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti geyri
geyri
Prof. Dr Hans Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg (1884-1963) German ornithologist, collector, explorer in the Arctic 1907-1908, Sudan 1913, and Algerian Sahara 1913-1914 (subsp. Ammomanes deserti, syn. Ardeotis arabs stieberi, syn. Locustella luscinioides).

Desert Lark (whitakeri)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti whitakeri
whitakeri
Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker (1850-1936) British archaeologist, ornithologist, collector (Alectoris, subsp. Ammomanes deserti, syn. Cettia cetti, syn. Galerida cristata arenicola, subsp. Garrulus glandarius).

Desert Lark (kollmannspergeri)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti kollmannspergeri
kollmannspergeri / kollmanspergeri
Dr Franz Josef Kollmansperger (1907-?1997) German zoologist, ecologist, explorer in the Sahara 1953-1954 (subsp. Ammomanes deserti, syn. Bubo cinerascens).

Desert Lark (isabellina)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti isabellina
isabellina / isabellinus
Mod. L. isabellinus  isabelline-coloured, greyish-yellow  < French  Isabelle  < Spanish  Isabella. The origin of the colour term ‘isabelline’ is now unknown. The most likely candidate is Isabel I Queen of Castile and Spain (reigned 1474-1504), said to have promised not to change her undergarments until Spain was freed from the Moors (Granada, the last Moorish ta’ifa, fell in 1492). In 1600, a gown of isabella colour is referred to in an inventory of the wardrobe of Elizabeth I Queen of England (Macleod 1954). The link with the Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain, who vowed not to change her linen until Ostend (beseiged 1601-1604) was taken, is discounted by SOED 1944 (cf. "I came across an alternative explanation, that the word 'isabelline' is actually a corruption of the Italian word zibellino. This name was given to a pelt of an animal such as a marten or Sable, worn by wealthy women during the 16th century. It may originally derive from an Arabic word meaning 'lion' and therefore mean 'lion-coloured'" (Stephen Moss 2017, Birdwatch, 299, 77)). 
● ex “Isabelle” of Levaillant 1802 (syn. Acrocephalus baeticatus).
● ex “Emerillon de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (subsp. Falco sparverius).

Desert Lark (deserti)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti deserti
deserta / desertae / deserti
L. desertum  desert, waste, solitude  < deserere  to abandon.
● Desertas Is., Madeira (Pterodroma).
● Erroneous TL. South Africa (= New Zealand); "113. MUSCICAPA.  ...  deserti.  92.  ...  Muscicapa fuliginosa.  Sparrm. mus. Carls. 2. t. 47.   Habitat in Africae deserto inter fluvium Hevy et fontem Quammedacka intermedio" (J. Gmelin 1789) (syn. Rhipidura fuliginosa).

Desert Lark (erythrochroa)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti erythrochroa
erythrochroa / erythrochrous
Gr. ερυθροχρους eruthrokhrous  red-coloured  < ερυθρος eruthros  red; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  appearance, colour  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

Desert Lark (samharensis)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti samharensis
samharensis
Samhara, the coastal region of Eritrea.

Desert Lark (assabensis)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti assabensis
assabensis
Assab, Danakil Coast, Eritrea.

Desert Lark (akeleyi)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti akeleyi
akeleyi
Carl Ethan Akeley (1864-1926) US taxidermist, artist, explorer, considered the father of modern taxidermy (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (coxi)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti coxi
coxi
Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (1864-1937) British diplomat, Agent and Consul at Muscat 1899-1904, Resident and Consul-Gen. Persian Gulf 1904-1914, Chief Political Officer in Mesopotamia 1914-1918, Minister at Tehran 1918-1920, High Commissioner in Iraq 1920-1923 (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (annae)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti annae
annae
● Anne Constance Meinertzhagen née Jackson (1888-1928) British ornithologist, second wife of Col. R. Meinertzhagen (subsp. Ammomanes deserti, subsp. Anthus cinnamomeus, syn. Cisticola juncidis).
● Anna Stejneger née Normann (1852-1914) wife of Norwegian zoologist Dr Leonhard Stejneger (subsp. Artamella viridis).
● Anna Antoinette Weber van Bosse (1852-1942) Dutch botanist, collector in the East Indies 1888-1890, 1899-1900, with her husband Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (Dicaeum).
● Anna Gräfin von Branicka (fl. 1900) wife of Polish ornithologist Ksawery Graf von Branicki (syn. Heliodoxa rubinoides cervinigularis, subsp. Ocreatus underwoodii).
● Female eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (Hartlaub & Finsch 1868, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 5, pl. 2); perhaps after a relative of Hartlaub or Finsch, or of the magnate Godeffroy, or, doubtfully, after Anna Kubary née Yelliott (d. 1937) daughter of US missionary on Ponapé and wife of Polish collector Jan Kubary (Michael Grayson in litt.) (Horornis).
● Anne Tilney Sage née Holmes (1910-1996) US collector, first wife of ornithologist Dean Sage, Jr. (syn. Ithaginis cruentus berezowskii).
● Anna Ivanovna Sushkina née Kulakova (1881-1947) wife of Russian ornithologist Petr Petrovich Sushkin (Björn Bergenholtz and Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Leucosticte brandti).

Desert Lark (azizi)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti azizi
azizi
Abdul Aziz bin Abd ur-Rahman al Su’ūd King of Saudi Arabia (1876-1953; reigned 1932-1953) (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (saturata)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti saturata
saturata
L. saturatus  richly coloured, darker coloured  < satur, satura  rich, copious  < satis  enough.

Desert Lark (insularis)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti insularis
insularis
L. insularis  of an island  < insula, insulae  island.
● Ceylon (= Sri Lanka) (syn. Accipiter badius, subsp. Chloropsis aurifrons, subsp. Dicrurus caerulescens, subsp. Prinia inornata).
● New Caledonia (syn. Accipiter fasciatus vigilax).
● Phu-Quoc I., Cochin China (=Vietnam) (subsp. Aethopyga siparaja).
● Andaman Is., Bay of Bengal (subsp. Amaurornis phoenicurus).
● Bahrain, Arabian Gulf (subsp. Ammomanes deserti)
● Erroneous TL. Madagascar (= Zanzibar) (subsp. Andropadus importunus).
● Santa Cruz I., Channel Is., California, USA (subsp. Aphelocoma californica, subsp. Eremophila alpestris).
● Rennell I., Solomon Is. (Aplonis).
● Jobi I. (= Japen = Yapen), New Guinea (Arses, subsp. Pachycephalopsis hattamensis).
● Sardinia (Bubo).
● Fernando Póo (= Bioko), Gulf of Guinea (syn. Campethera tullbergi, syn. Cinnyris chloropygius).
● Isla Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico (syn. Cathartes aura, subsp. Cyclarhis gujanensis).
● Aldabra, Indian Ocean (subsp. Centropus toulou).
● Sardinia (syn. Coccothraustes coccothraustes).
● Grand Cayman, Caribbean Sea (subsp. Columbina passerina).
● New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea (Corvus).
● Formosa/Taiwan (subsp. Dendrocopos leucotos, Myophonus, syn. Garrulus bispecularis).
● Borneo (syn. Dicrurus paradiseus).
● Nicobar Is., Bay of Bengal (syn. Ducula aenea nicobarica).
● Corsica (syn. Emberiza calandra, syn. Saxicola rubicola).
● Socotra (subsp. Emberiza tahapisi, Passer).
● Weda Is., Halmahera, Indonesia (syn. Eos squamata).
● Tres Marías Is., Nayarit, Mexico (Forpus, subsp. Myadestes occidentalis, subsp. Nyctidromus albicollis, subsp. Pachyramphus aglaiae, subsp. Setophaga pitiayumi, syn. Zenaida asiatica).
● Lord Howe I., Tasman Sea (syn. Fregetta grallaria, ‡Gerygone).
● Rottnest I., Western Australia (syn. Gavicalis virescens).
● Meco I., Quintana Roo, Mexico (subsp. Habia fuscicauda).
● Ship I., off Gulfport, Mississippi, USA (syn. Hirundo rustica erythrogaster).
● Tobago (Hylophilus, subsp. Platyrinchus mystaceus, subsp. Psarocolius decumanus).
● Isla Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico (Junco).
● Isla Margarita, Venezuela (syn. Leptotila verreauxi,  subsp. Quiscalus lugubris).
● New Providence, Bahamas (sym. Leuconotopicus villosus maynardi).
● King I., Bass Strait, Australia (syn. Melithreptus brevirostris).
● Kangean Is., Java Sea, Indonesia (subsp. Oriolus chinensis).
● Fergusson I., D'Entrecasteaux Is., Papua New Guinea (Otidiphaps).
● Mahé I., Seychelles (Otus).
● Kodiak I., Alaska, USA (subsp. Passerella unalaschcensis).
● Honshu, Japan (subsp. Periparus ater).
● Stewart I., New Zealand (syn. Poodytes punctatus).
● Henderson I., Pitcairn Group, Pacific Ocean (Ptilinopus).
● Naochow I., Kwangtung, China (syn. Pycnonotus aurigaster resurrectus).
● Banggai I., North Borneo (syn. Pycnonotus plumosus hachisukae).
● Madagascar (Sarothrura, subsp. Thalassornis leuconotus).
● Forsyth I., Bass Strait, Australia (syn. Sericornis frontalis).
● Grand Bahama I., Bahamas (Sitta).
● Trinidad (syn. Sporophila intermedia).
● Nias I., Sumatra (subsp. Terpsiphone affinis).
● Terangan I., Aru Is., Indonesia (syn. Todiramphus macleayii).
● Isla Socorro, Colima, Mexico (syn. Troglodytes sissonii).
● Erroneous TL. São Vicente, Cape Verde Is. (= St. Vincent, West Indies) (subsp. Tyto glaucops).
● Vancouver I., British Columbia, Canada (syn. Vireo huttoni).
● Stephens I., Cook Strait, New Zealand (‡syn. Xenicus lyalli).
● Curaçao, Dutch Antilles (subsp. Zonotrichia capensis).
● Tanegashima, south of Kyushu, Japan (subsp. Zosterops japonicus).

Desert Lark (taimuri)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti taimuri
taimuri
Sultan al-Wasik Billah al-Majid Sayyed Said bin Taimur (1910-1972; ruled 1932-1970 deposed) Sultan of Muscat and Oman (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (cheesmani)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti cheesmani
cheesmani
Col. Robert Ernest Cheesman (1878-1962) British Army, colonial administrator, ornithologist, explorer, Private Secretary to High Commissioner in Iraq 1920-1923, Consul at Dangila, Abyssinia 1925-1934, Section Head of Intelligence, Sudan 1940-1942, Legation Counsellor at Addis Ababa 1942-1944 (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).

Desert Lark (darica)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti darica
darica
Dari, Gabri or Zoroastrian, a minor language of central Iran.

Desert Lark (parvirostris)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti parvirostris
parvirostris
L. parvus  small; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Pato pico pequeño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 432 (syn. Anas sibilatrix).
● "54.  Tetrao, L.   141. urogallus, L.  (major, Br.  crassirostris, Brehm.  hybridus, L. cum Lyr. tetrice.  medius, Leisl.  intermedius, Langsd.  pseudourogallus, Brehm.  maculatus, Brehm.  urogalloides, Nilss.)   142. parvirostris, Bp.  (urogalloides, Middend.)" (Bonaparte 1856).  According to Mlíkovsky 2012, "the Black-billed Capercaillie should be called Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff, 1853, not Tetrao parvirostris Bonaparte, 1856." (syn. Tetrao urogalloides).

Desert Lark (orientalis)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti orientalis
orientale / orientalis
L. orientalis  eastern, oriental  < oriens, orientis  east.
● Asia; ex “Anser moschoviticus” of Albin 1731-1738, and “Anser chinensis” of Linnaeus 1747 (syn. Anser cygnoides).
● India; ex Ardea antigone Linnaeus, 1758, “Grus orientalis” of Brisson 1760, and “Indian Crane” of Latham 1785 (syn. Antigone antigone).
● East Indies (= Seram and New Guinea); ex “Casoar des Indes orientales” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 313 (syn. Casuarius casuarius).
● India; ex “Eastern Parrot” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Eclectus roratus).
● East Indies (= Amboina); ex “Coucou noir des Indes” (= ♂) and “Coucou tacheté des Indes” (=♀) of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● East Indies (=Java); ex “Rollier des Indes” of Brisson 1760 (Eurystomus).
● East Indies; ex “Merula indica” of Brisson 1760, “Merle des Indes Orientales” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 273, fig. 2, and “Ash-rumped Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Lalage nigra).
● India; ex “Indian Bee-eater” and “Coromandel Bee-eater” of Latham 1782-1787 (Merops).
● Asia; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus” of previous authors (syn. Pelecanus onocrotalus).
● "91. TETRAO.  ...  orientalis.  12. T. pedibus antice pilosis: abdomine gulaque atra, collari ferrugineo, cauda cuneiformi.  Tetrao orientalis. Hasselq. it. 278. n. 43.  Perdix damascena. Will. orn. 128.  Francolin. Tournef. it. I. p. 158. t. 158.  Habitat in Oriente." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pterocles).
● China; ex “Tourterelle brune de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1782, and “Chinese Turtle” of Latham 1783 (Streptopelia).
● China; ex “China Owl” of Latham 1801 (syn. Strix seloputo).

Desert Lark (iranica)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti iranica
iranica / iranicus
Iran.

Desert Lark (phoenicuroides)
SCI Name: Ammomanes deserti phoenicuroides
phoenicuroides
● Specific name Mirafra phoenicurus Franklin, 1831; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "a new MIRAFRA, sent entire in spirit, as also a skin,§   ...   § M. PHŒNICUROIDES, nobis.  Affined to M. PHŒNICURA, Franklin, but the general hue less rufescent; the under-parts pale fulvous-grey, albescent on throat; tail brown, faintly rufescent at its extreme base, and on the exterior web of the outermost feather; broad margins to inner webs of the primaries and secondaries, with the axillaries, also pale rufescent, imparting this hue to the inner surface of ther wing.  ...  Hab. Kashmir." (Blyth 1853) (subsp. Ammomanes deserti).
● Specific name Lanius phoenicurus Pallas, 1810 (= syn. Lanius cristatus); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "23.  Lanius phoenicuroïdes (1, 2, 3)." (Severtzov 1873); "8. Otomela phoenicuroides (Sev.).  Lanius phoenicuroides Sev., J. f. O. 1873, p. 347.  Lanius isabellinus (nec Ehr.) Walden, Ibis 1867, p. 224, tab. 5, fig. 1.  Lanius phoenicurus (nec Pall.) J. Vian, Rev. de Zool. 1871/2, p. 330.  ...  Beschrieben nach einem Exemplare Severzow's, erlegt im Mai zu Tschimkent, befindlich im hiesigen Museum.  ...  Dass der von Vian (l. c.) unter dem Namen L. phoenicurus Pall. von der Ostseite des caspischen Meeres beschriebene Würger zu dieser Art gezogen werden muss, habe ich bereits früher dargethan." (Schalow 1875) (Lanius).
● Specific name Motacilla phoenicurus Linnaeus, 1758; Gr. -οιδης
-oidēs  resembling; "468.  RUTICILLA PHŒNICUROÏDES, Moore.  ...  In this species the black colour of the breast extends much lower down, and the first primary is a ¼ in. longer, the second being shorter by a ¼ in., than in R. Phœnicura; the bill is more elongated, and a trifle longer, and not so broad at the base.  It is closely allied to R. Phœnicura, but is readily distinguished from it by the absence of white on the crown." (Moore 1854) (subsp. Phoenicurus ochruros).