Great Bustard

SCI Name:  Otis tarda
Protonym:  Otis Tarda Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.154
Taxonomy:  Otidiformes / Otididae / Otis
Taxonomy Code:  grebus1
Type Locality:  Poland.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

OTIS
(Otididae; Ϯ Great Bustard O. tarda) L. otis, otidis  bustard  < Gr. ωτις ōtis, ωτιδος ōtidos  bustard with long ear feathers; no Palaearctic bustard has ‘ear feathers,’ but this bird has been identified with the prominently moustached or ‘whiskered’ Great Bustard ("Tarda.  1. O. jugulo utrinque cristato." (Linnaeus 1758)); "85. OTIS.  Rostrum mandibula superiore fornicata.  Lingua bifida.  Pedes tridactyli absque postico." (Linnaeus 1758); "Otis Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 154. Type, by subsequent designation, Otis tarda Linné. (Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, p. 64.)" (Peters 1934, II, 217).  Linnaeus's Otis comprised four species (O. Tarda, O. arabs, O. Tetrax, O. afra) (see rhaad).
Var. Otus.
Synon. Otidus, Tarda.

tarda
● L. tarda  Hispanic name for the Great Bustard; "85. OTIS.  ...  Tarda.  1. O. jugulo utrinque cristato.  Tarda. Dodart. mem. 3. p. 309. Edw. av. 73. t. 73. 74. Alb. av. 3. p. 36. t. 38. 39.  Otis s. Tarda avis. Raj. av. 38. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 12. Edw. av. 73. t. 73. 74.  Habitat in Poloniæ, Orientis campis; migrat per Belgium, Angliam. Mensis eximia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Otis).
● L. tardus slow (cf. Hindi name Tot-rungi for the Jungle Prinia) (syn. Prinia gracilis).

Tarda
(syn. Otis Ϯ Great Bustard O. tarda) Specific name Otis Tarda Linnaeus, 1758  < L. tarda  Hispanic name for the Great Bustard; "2. TARDA.  Otis.  ...  Habitat in arvis spaciosis, & ova inter segetes avenæ deponit, ubi iis incubando collo procero eminet, & periculum suspicans sub alis aliunde transportat." (Klein 1766).

SUBSPECIES

Great Bustard (tarda)
SCI Name: Otis tarda tarda
tarda
● L. tarda  Hispanic name for the Great Bustard; "85. OTIS.  ...  Tarda.  1. O. jugulo utrinque cristato.  Tarda. Dodart. mem. 3. p. 309. Edw. av. 73. t. 73. 74. Alb. av. 3. p. 36. t. 38. 39.  Otis s. Tarda avis. Raj. av. 38. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 12. Edw. av. 73. t. 73. 74.  Habitat in Poloniæ, Orientis campis; migrat per Belgium, Angliam. Mensis eximia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Otis).
● L. tardus slow (cf. Hindi name Tot-rungi for the Jungle Prinia) (syn. Prinia gracilis).

Great Bustard (dybowskii)
SCI Name: Otis tarda dybowskii
dybowskii
● Prof. Dr Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (1833-1930) Polish zoologist, exiled in Siberia 1864-1876 (subsp. Eriocnemis aline, syn. Locustella ochotensis, subsp. Otis tarda, subsp. Passer montanus, syn. Poecile montanus baicalensis, syn. Spinus spinus).
● Jean Thadée Emmanuel Dybowski (1856-1928) French agronomist, botanist, traveller, collector in tropical Africa 1891-1894 (Euschistospiza, syn. Pternistis icterorhynchus).