Hook-billed Vanga

SCI Name:  Vanga curvirostris
Protonym:  Lanius curvirostris Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.135
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Vangidae / Vanga
Taxonomy Code:  hobvan1
Type Locality:  Madagascar. Type locality restricted to Fort Dauphin by Stresemann, 1952, Ibis, p. 505.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

VANGA
(Vangidae; Ϯ Hook-billed Vanga V. curvirostris) Malagasy name Vanga  pied bird, for the Hook-billed Vanga (pace Gotch 1981: “vanga (L) a mattock ...  short pickaxe-like implement with a curved blade or spike”); "VANGA, Vanga.  Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec plus long que la tête, comprimé par les côtés, droit; mandibule supérieure échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure retroussée et aiguë à la pointe. — Ailes à penne bâtarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Vanga, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Vanga Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p.41. Type, by monotypy, Buffon's "Vanga" = Lanius curvirostris Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 366).
Synon. Spasornis.

curvirostra / curvirostre / curvirostris
L. curvus  curved, bent; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Sirli du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Certhilauda).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Curvirostra.  1. L. rostro forficato. Fn. svec. 177.  Loxia. Gesn. av. 592. Aldr. orn. l. 12. c. 47. Charl. onom. 68. t. 68. Will. orn. 181. t. 44. Raj. av. 86. Alb. orn. I. p. 58. t. 61. Frisch. av. 2. t. 11. f. 3. 4.  Habitat in Europæ Abietis, strobilos enucleans, at non in ipsa arbore, disseminator Abietis rostro singulari." (Linnaeus 1758) (Loxia).
● ex “Malkoha Rouverdin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 225 (Phaenicophaeus).
● ex "Hook-billed Pigeon" of Latham 1783 (Treron).
● ex “Loggerhead” of Sloane 1725, and “Grande Sitelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (?syn. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).
● ex “Collurio madagascariensis” of Brisson 1760 (Vanga).

SUBSPECIES

Hook-billed Vanga (Hook-billed)
SCI Name: Vanga curvirostris curvirostris
curvirostra / curvirostre / curvirostris
L. curvus  curved, bent; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Sirli du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Certhilauda).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Curvirostra.  1. L. rostro forficato. Fn. svec. 177.  Loxia. Gesn. av. 592. Aldr. orn. l. 12. c. 47. Charl. onom. 68. t. 68. Will. orn. 181. t. 44. Raj. av. 86. Alb. orn. I. p. 58. t. 61. Frisch. av. 2. t. 11. f. 3. 4.  Habitat in Europæ Abietis, strobilos enucleans, at non in ipsa arbore, disseminator Abietis rostro singulari." (Linnaeus 1758) (Loxia).
● ex “Malkoha Rouverdin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 225 (Phaenicophaeus).
● ex "Hook-billed Pigeon" of Latham 1783 (Treron).
● ex “Loggerhead” of Sloane 1725, and “Grande Sitelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (?syn. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).
● ex “Collurio madagascariensis” of Brisson 1760 (Vanga).

Hook-billed Vanga (Black-crowned)
SCI Name: Vanga curvirostris cetera
cetera / ceterus
L. ceterus other, that which exists besides, other part.