Large-billed Lark

SCI Name:  Galerida magnirostris
Protonym:  Alauda magnirostris Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 14 pt1 p.26
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Galerida
Taxonomy Code:  lablar1
Type Locality:  South Africa = Cape Town, ex Levaillant.
Author:  Stephens
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GALERIDA
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Crested Lark G. cristata) L. galerita, galeritus, galerius or avis galerita  lark with a crest, either the Crested Lark or the Eurasian Skylark  < galerum  cap, bonnet  < galea  helmet; "Fam. Alaudidae.   Gattung Galerida ⁴    Hieher aus Europa:  1. Alauda cristata Lin.   2. — undata Gm.    Africa:  3. cinerea Gm.   4. isabellina Tem. col. 244. fig. 2.   ...   ⁴ Plin." (Boie 1828); "Galerida Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, col. 321. Type, by subsequent designation, Alauda cristata Linnaeus (Gray, 1840, List. Gen. Birds, p. 47)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 55).   
Var. Galerita, Golerida.   
Synon. Calendula, Corydus, Erana, Heliocorys, Heterops, Ptilocorys, Spizalauda.

magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus  great; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).

SUBSPECIES

Large-billed Lark (sedentaria)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris sedentaria
sedentaria / sedentarius
L. sedentarius sedentary, sitting < sedere to sit.

Large-billed Lark (magnirostris)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris magnirostris
magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus  great; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).

Large-billed Lark (harei)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris harei
harei
Henry Leighton Hare (fl. 1920) English civil servant in South Africa, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Calendulauda africanoides, syn. Certhilauda burra, syn. Dendropicos fuscescens, syn. Eupodotis vigorsii namaqua, subsp. Galerida magnirostris).