Karoo Long-billed Lark

SCI Name:  Certhilauda subcoronata
Protonym:  Certhilauda subcoronata Ill.Zool.S.Afr. pl.90 fig.2,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Certhilauda
Taxonomy Code:  klblar1
Type Locality:  arid districts on both coasts of the Cape Colony.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CERTHILAUDA
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Cape Long-billed Lark C. curvirostris) Genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper; genus Alauda Linnaeus, 1758, lark; "CERTHILAUDA.  ...   Bill moderate, slender, curved.  Nostrils roundish.  Wings . . . ?  Tail rather short, even. Feet moderate; nail of the hind toe short, straight.  Type. L'Alouette Sirli. Levaill., Ois. pl. 192.  My specimen of this bird is deficient in some of its quill feathers." (Swainson 1827); "Certhilauda Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 344. Type, by original designation, l'Alouette Sirli of Levaillant = Alauda curvirostris Vieillot." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 24).
Var. Certhialauda, Certhilanda, Cethilanda.
Synon. Corydalis, Heterocorys, Pseudocorys, Thinotretis, Toxocorys.

subcoronata / subcoronatus
L. sub  somewhat; coronatus  crowned  < coronare  to crown  < corona  crown.

SUBSPECIES

Karoo Long-billed Lark (bradshawi)
SCI Name: Certhilauda subcoronata bradshawi
bradshawi
Dr Benjamin Frederick Bradshaw (?1844-?1903) British physician in South Africa who investigated the connection between the tsetse fly and sleeping sickness, 1875-1903, explorer, naturalist (subsp. Certhilauda subcoronata, syn. Chalcomitra amethystina kalckreuthi).

Karoo Long-billed Lark (damarensis)
SCI Name: Certhilauda subcoronata damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

Karoo Long-billed Lark (subcoronata)
SCI Name: Certhilauda subcoronata subcoronata
subcoronata / subcoronatus
L. sub  somewhat; coronatus  crowned  < coronare  to crown  < corona  crown.

Karoo Long-billed Lark (gilli)
SCI Name: Certhilauda subcoronata gilli
gilli
● Dr Edwin Leonard Gill (1877-1956) South African zoologist, field-guide pioneer 1936, Director of South African Mus. 1924-1941 (subsp. Certhilauda subcoronata, syn. Pternistis swainsonii).
● Prof. Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914) US ichthyologist, malacologist, librarian at the Smithsonian and at the Library of Congress (‡Dendragapus).
● Dr Frank Bennington Gill (b. 1941) US ornithologist (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Zosterops montanus).