Dupont's Lark

SCI Name:  Chersophilus duponti
Protonym:  Alauda Duponti FauneFrance p.173 pl.76 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Chersophilus
Taxonomy Code:  duplar1
Type Locality:  Provence.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1824
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CHERSOPHILUS
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Dupont's Lark C. duponti) Gr. χερσος khersos  barren land; φιλος philos  lover; "Shy and elusive species of arid plains with sparse vegetation" (Beaman & Madge 1998); "Cette nouvelle race, dont nous devons la connaissance à M. Dupont, naturaliste, qui l'a trouvée en Provence, a, dans son plumage et la forme de son bec, de grands rapports avec l'alouette sirli [Alaemon], qui habite l'Afrique" (Vieillot 1820); "b'. First primary very much diminished in size and not equal to half the tarsus.  c''. Bill long and slender, about as high as it is broad  at nostrils. . . .  4. CHERSOPHILUS   ...   CHERSOPHILUS.  Certhilauda, pt., auct. recent.   ...   1. Chersophilus duponti.   ...   Subsp. a. Chersophilus lusitanicus." (Sharpe 1890); "Chersophilus Sharpe, 1890, Cat. Birds Brit.Mus., 13, p. 512 (in key), p. 525. Type, by subsequent designation, Ch. duponti = Alauda Duponti Vieillot (Hartert and Steinbacher, 1933, Vög. pal. Fauna, Ergänzungsb., Heft 2, p. 129)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 54). 

chersophilus
Gr. χερσος khersos  barren land; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

duponti / dupontii
● John Eleuthère DuPont (1938-2010) US philanthropist, zoologist, founder of the Delaware Mus. of Natural History 1957, who served a sentence for murder 1997-2010 (subsp. Aimophila ruficeps, subsp. Tanygnathus everetti).
● Léonard Puech Dupont (1796-1828) French anatomical artisan, natural history dealer, early trochilidist (Chersophilus ("Cette attribution a été combattue par P. Géroudet qui, devant l'existence de plusiers Dupont et l'incertitude de leur paternité pour le nom de l'oiseau, a proposé de le nommer Sirli ricoti (un des noms espagnols de l'oiseau, d'origine onomatopéique)" (Cabard & Chauvet 2003)), syn. Pachyramphus viridis).
● "Nous sommes redevables de la communication de la seule espèce connue à M. Dupont" (Lesson 1832). This eponym refers either to Léonard Puech Dupont (1796-1828) French anatomical artisan and early trochilidist, or his brother Richard-Henry Puech Dupont (1798-1873) French entomologist and conchologist, who provided specimens from Léonard's collection to Lesson (Tilmatura).

SUBSPECIES

Dupont's Lark (duponti)
SCI Name: Chersophilus duponti duponti
duponti / dupontii
● John Eleuthère DuPont (1938-2010) US philanthropist, zoologist, founder of the Delaware Mus. of Natural History 1957, who served a sentence for murder 1997-2010 (subsp. Aimophila ruficeps, subsp. Tanygnathus everetti).
● Léonard Puech Dupont (1796-1828) French anatomical artisan, natural history dealer, early trochilidist (Chersophilus ("Cette attribution a été combattue par P. Géroudet qui, devant l'existence de plusiers Dupont et l'incertitude de leur paternité pour le nom de l'oiseau, a proposé de le nommer Sirli ricoti (un des noms espagnols de l'oiseau, d'origine onomatopéique)" (Cabard & Chauvet 2003)), syn. Pachyramphus viridis).
● "Nous sommes redevables de la communication de la seule espèce connue à M. Dupont" (Lesson 1832). This eponym refers either to Léonard Puech Dupont (1796-1828) French anatomical artisan and early trochilidist, or his brother Richard-Henry Puech Dupont (1798-1873) French entomologist and conchologist, who provided specimens from Léonard's collection to Lesson (Tilmatura).

Dupont's Lark (margaritae)
SCI Name: Chersophilus duponti margaritae
margaritae
● Margarita Nikandrovna Zilova (fl. 1897) common-law wife of Russian ornithologist Konstantin Davydof (Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Alectoris chukar sinaica).
● Margaret Kernochan Pulitzer née Leech (1893-1974) US author, historian, wife of publisher and sponsor Ralph Pulitzer (Batis).
● Margarethe Koenig née Westphal (1865-1943) German field-naturalist, collector, wife of zoologist Prof. A. Koenig (subsp. Chersophilus duponti).
● Gabrielle Maud Vassal née Candler (fl. 1919) collector in tropical China and Indochina (subsp. Cissa chinensis).
● Subsequent spelling by author of subspecific name Coeligena torquata margaretae Zimmer, 1948 (syn. Coeligena torquata margaretae).
● Margaret Hall Holt née Lander (b. 1894) wife of US ornithologist Ernest G. Holt (Conirostrum).
● Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela (subsp. Crypturellus erythropus, subsp. Megascops choliba, subsp. Phalaenopsis brasiliana, subsp. Rallus longirostris, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Hon. Margaret Mary Fraser (1881-1973) sister of explorer Simon Fraser 14th Lord Lovat (syn. Estrilda paludicola ochrogaster).
● Amelia ‘Daisy’ Woolworth Smith née Smith (b. 1858) US preparator, collector in the Neotropics, wife of naturalist Herbert Huntington Smith (Spanish name margarita for the daisy flower) (subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, subsp. Sporathraupis cyanocephala, subsp. Tangara flava).
● Margaret Fitzell Gilliard née Tifft (1918-2008) wife of US ornithologist E. Thomas Gilliard (subsp. Paradisornis rudolphi).
● Isla Santa Margarita, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Polioptila californica).
● Anne Louise Marguerite Dorst née Larpent (fl. 1956) wife of French ornithologist Jean Dorst (subsp. Psilopsiagon aurifrons).
● Marguerite Delacour (1860-1954) mother of French ornithologist Jean Delacour (Psittiparus).
● Margaret Boardman Conover (b. 1888) sister of US ornithologist Henry Boardman Conover (subsp. Zentrygon frenata).