Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo / Surniculus dicruroides
WBN 
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pseudornis Dicruroides J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 8 p.136 pl.
Taxonomy: Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Surniculus
Taxonomy Code: asidrc2
Type Locality: Mountains of Nepal.
Author: Hodgson
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SURNICULUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo S. lugubris) Portmanteau of genera Surnia Duméril, 1805, owl (i.e. wicked, evil) and Cuculus Linnaeus, 1758, cuckoo (cf. French sournois deceitful; Coucou cuckoo); "It has three distinct notes, which it repeats in great regularity with a loud but not unpleasant voice, although by many natives it is considered as ominous of evil" (Horsfield 1824); "5.e Race. Les SURNICOUS; Surniculus. Bec mince, comprimé, faible; tarses très-courts, grêles, emplumés jusqu'au-dessous du genou; queue longue, très-étagée; ailes médiocres et pointues; narines arrondies, ouvertes, basales. 12. COUCOU LUGUBRE; Cuculus lugubris, Horsf. ... L'Awon-awon des Javanais. ... 13. COUCOU A TÊTE GRISE; Cuculus flavus, Gm. ... 14. COUCOU A VENTRE RAYÉ; Cuculus lineatus." (Lesson 1830); "Surniculus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 2, 1830, p. 151. Type, by subsequent designation, Cuculus lugubris Horsfield. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 97.)" (Peters 1940, IV, 35).
Synon. Cacangelus, Pseudornis.
dicruroides
Genus Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816, drongo; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling (see Pseudornis) (Surniculus).
SUBSPECIES
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (dicruroides)
SCI Name: Surniculus dicruroides dicruroides
dicruroides
Genus Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816, drongo; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling (see Pseudornis) (Surniculus).
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (stewarti)
SCI Name: Surniculus dicruroides stewarti
stewarti
● Ronald McDonald Stewart (1881-1958) English ornithologist, naturalist, game warden and wildfowl officer in British Columbia, Canada 1919-1958 (subsp. Certhia americana).
● Surgeon-Gen. Ludovick Charles Stewart (1819-1888) British Army in India, naturalist (Emberiza, subsp. Prinia socialis).
● J. S. Stewart (fl. 1913) in Travancore, India 1907-1913 (subsp. Galloperdix spadicea, syn. Surniculus dicruroides).
● Robert E. Stewart (1913-1993) US biologist, ornithologist (syn. Otus bakkamoena gangeticus).
● Stewart I., New Zealand (syn. Phalacrocorax chalconotus).
● Stewart Shipton (1869-1939) British accountant, sugar-mill manager in Argentina 1891-1939, naturalist (syn. Sicalis olivascens).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
